发明申请
US20130335609A1 A/D CONVERTER, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
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A / D转换器,固态图像拾取器件及其驱动方法和电子设备
- 专利标题: A/D CONVERTER, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
- 专利标题(中): A / D转换器,固态图像拾取器件及其驱动方法和电子设备
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申请号: US14002020申请日: 2012-03-23
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公开(公告)号: US20130335609A1公开(公告)日: 2013-12-19
- 发明人: Kenichi Higuchi , Yoshiaki Inada
- 申请人: Kenichi Higuchi , Yoshiaki Inada
- 申请人地址: JP Tokyo
- 专利权人: SONY CORPORATION
- 当前专利权人: SONY CORPORATION
- 当前专利权人地址: JP Tokyo
- 优先权: JP2011-075959 20110330
- 国际申请: PCT/JP2012/057527 WO 20120323
- 主分类号: H04N5/347
- IPC分类号: H04N5/347
摘要:
The present technology relates to an A/D converter, a solid-state image pickup device and a method of driving the same, and an electronic apparatus which are capable of reducing power consumption while reducing a circuit size. A comparator compares a reference voltage with an input voltage, the reference voltage having a ramp waveform whose voltage value varies with time, a lower-bit storage element holds a count value in a predetermined count pattern, based on an output signal from the comparator, a Gray code binary conversion circuit converts the count value in the count pattern held by the lower-bit storage element into binary data, and a storing operation control circuit supplies a pulse signal corresponding to the binary data obtained by conversion in the Gray code binary conversion circuit to a lower-bit U/D CNT. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an image sensor storing a count value in a storage element with use of a Gray code or a phase shift code as a clock signal.
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