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    公开(公告)号:AT93653T

    公开(公告)日:1993-09-15

    申请号:AT86308864

    申请日:1986-11-13

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: The photoelectric conversion device comprises a plurality of electric conversion cells. Each cell is capable of performing a store operation, a read operation and a refresh operation. In the store operation, a potential of a control electrode region (base 4) of a semiconductor transistor is controlled using a capacitor (7) and carriers which have been generated by light excitation are stored in the control electrode region. In the read operation, a signal dependent on the voltage generated by the stored carriers is read out of a main electrode area (emitter 8) of the transistor. In the refresh operation, cariers stored in the control electrode region (4) are removed. A semiconductor region (emitter 8 min ) of the same conductivity type as of the main electrode region (emitter 8), is formed in the control electrode region (4) separately from the main electrode region (8).

    53.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69937978D1

    公开(公告)日:2008-03-06

    申请号:DE69937978

    申请日:1999-03-11

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: In the solid state image pickup apparatus, in order to achieve complete transfer of the charge from the photodiode to the floating diffusion area, there is provided a pickup apparatus having a photoelectric conversion element, a transfer switch consisting of a MOS transistor for transferring the signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion element, a floating diffusion capacitance for receiving the signal charge through the transfer switch, and a reset switch consisting of a MOS transistor for resetting the potential of the floating diffusion capacitance, the device comprising at least a potential setting circuit for generating a voltage different from the power supply voltage, wherein the output of the potential setting circuit is applied as a pulse to the gate of the transfer switch and/or the gate of the reset switch.

    54.
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    公开(公告)号:DE69836608D1

    公开(公告)日:2007-01-25

    申请号:DE69836608

    申请日:1998-09-28

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: In a photoelectric conversion device having a plurality of pixel cells each of which includes a photoelectric conversion element (901), a first switch (911) for transferring charge generated by the photoelectric conversion element, a field effect transistor (903), having a gate area for receiving the transferred charge, for outputting a signal corresponding to the charge stored in the gate area, and a second switch (902) for resetting the gate area of the field effect transistor, it is determined that the threshold voltages of the first switch and the second are different from the threshold voltage of the field effect transistor.

    55.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69833738D1

    公开(公告)日:2006-05-04

    申请号:DE69833738

    申请日:1998-12-23

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: To provide an image pickup apparatus that generates an image signal having a high resolution both horizontally and vertically, the filter arrangement for a color filter array used in the apparatus is so designed that the colors of the filters in a cyclic patterned unit of N rows x N columns (4 lines x 4 columns) differ from each other not only on the same line but also in the same column. Thus, from all the pixel blocks, pixel signals for each predetermined pixel block unit can be obtained that are required for the generation of a luminance signal and of color signals.

    57.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69830137D1

    公开(公告)日:2005-06-16

    申请号:DE69830137

    申请日:1998-12-21

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: To output a color image signal of an arbitrary basic block and facilitate processing on the output side, an image pickup element including a plurality of photodetectors each having a color filter array, a vertical direction selection circuit for selecting in the vertical direction an arbitrary basic block having at least one of the plurality of photodetectors, a horizontal direction selection circuit for selecting the arbitrary basic block in the horizontal direction, and an output circuit for parallelly outputting outputs from the photodetectors in the arbitrary basic block selected by the vertical direction selection circuit and horizontal direction selection circuit is provided.

    58.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69818790T2

    公开(公告)日:2004-08-05

    申请号:DE69818790

    申请日:1998-12-23

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: In a solid state image pickup apparatus having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements including a standard signal outputting photoelectric conversion element group for outputting standard signals and an effective signal outputting photoelectric conversion element group for outputting effective signals, a scanner circuit for sequentially reading signals from the photoelectric elements, and a selector circuit for selectively reading an optional element group in the effective signal outputting photoelectric conversion element group, the scanner circuit reads both the standard signal outputting photoelectric conversion element group and the optional element group in the effective signal outputting photoelectric conversion element group selected by the selector circuit.

    60.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69720598D1

    公开(公告)日:2003-05-15

    申请号:DE69720598

    申请日:1997-06-10

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: In order to obtain a reference output from which density nonuniformity and fixed pattern noise are removed using OB pixels (1) in a solid-state image pickup device, a solid-state image pickup device which has a plurality of storage units (3) for storing pixel signals output from a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (11), which are formed on a single semiconductor substrate and at least two of which are shielded from light, in correspondence with the photoelectric conversion elements. Pixel signal outputs from the shielded photoelectric conversion elements (1) are subjected to averaging processing on the storage units. Also, in the solid-state image pickup device, the storage units are formed of capacitances (3), which are electrically and temporarily connected to each other (5) to attain the averaging processing.

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