Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device and endoscope system
-
Application No.: US15876494Application Date: 2018-01-22
-
Publication No.: US10432882B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Yoshio Hagihara
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/374
- IPC: H04N5/374 ; H04N5/378 ; A61B1/05 ; H04N5/225 ; A61B1/045 ; H04N5/361 ; A61B1/07 ; G02B23/24 ; A61B1/06

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, a reference current generation circuit, a differential current generation circuit, a reference voltage generation circuit, a conversion circuit, and an output circuit. The differential current generation circuit generates a differential current according to a difference between a pixel current and a reference current. The conversion circuit converts the differential current into an output voltage on the basis of a first reference voltage. A second reference voltage is higher than the tint reference voltage when the output voltage at the time of resetting of the pixels is higher than the output voltage at the time of exposure of the pixels. The second reference voltage is lower than the first reference voltage when the output voltage at the time of resetting of the pixels is lower than the output voltage at the time of exposure of the pixels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180146152A1 IMAGING DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-05-24
Information query