Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, imaging system and movable object
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Application No.: US15956582Application Date: 2018-04-18
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Publication No.: US10554913B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Yu Arishima , Yasuhiro Oguro , Shinichiro Shimizu , Satoshi Koizumi , Masaya Ogino
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2017-087026 20170426
- Main IPC: H04N5/365
- IPC: H04N5/365 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes pixels forming pixel rows, and a scanning circuit that performs a reset operation of a photoelectric converter and a readout operation of a pixel signal based on charges generated by the photoelectric converter including charge transfer from the photoelectric converter to the holding unit. The pixel rows include imaging rows and focus detection rows. The scanning circuit performs an image capture scan of the imaging rows and a focus detection scan of the focus detection rows, independently, such that signals of the focus detection rows are output after signals from the imaging rows. The scanning circuit performs the focus detection scan such that the reset operation on the focus detection row does not overlap with a charge transfer period on an imaging row belonging to a unit pixel row neighboring a unit pixel row to which a focus detection row under the reset operation belongs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180316881A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM AND MOVABLE OBJECT Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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