Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor, endoscope, and endoscope system
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Application No.: US15940089Application Date: 2018-03-29
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Publication No.: US10456023B2Publication Date: 2019-10-29
- Inventor: Nana Akahane , Satoru Adachi , Takanori Tanaka
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2015-196784 20151002
- Main IPC: A61B1/05
- IPC: A61B1/05 ; A61B1/04 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N7/18 ; A61B1/00 ; A61B1/045 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/345

Abstract:
An image sensor includes: pixels; first transfer lines configured to transfer imaging signals of shared pixels that are present in a plurality of different rows and share a single column transfer line for each predetermined number of pixels adjacent in a row direction and; a constant current source configured to transfer the imaging signals; output units configured to externally output the imaging signals; and a control unit configured to simultaneously and externally outputs, by simultaneously driving the plurality of shared pixels present in a same single column transfer line in the plurality of different rows, each of the plurality of imaging signals, which are output from the shared pixels and are present in the same column in the plurality of different rows, and externally output all of the imaging signals of the shared pixels present in the plurality of different rows same number of times as the predetermined number.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180220880A1 IMAGE SENSOR, ENDOSCOPE, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-08-09
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