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- Patent Title: Solid-state image pickup apparatus, signal processing method for a solid-state image pickup apparatus, and electronic apparatus
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Application No.: US15962180Application Date: 2018-04-25
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Publication No.: US10257452B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Masaki Sakakibara , Tadayuki Taura , Yusuke Oike , Takafumi Takatsuka , Akihiko Kato
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP2010-079017 20100330; JP2011-015994 20110128
- Main IPC: H04N5/369
- IPC: H04N5/369 ; H04N5/365 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/355

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section that has at least one pixel with a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge detection unit. A driving section is configured to read out a signal of the pixel, a first portion of said signal being based on signal charge, a second portion of said signal being based on a reset potential. A signal processing section is configured to read out the first portion of the signal as a reference voltage, with the reference voltage being adjusted to cause the first and second portions of the signal to be within an input voltage range.
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