Invention Application
- Patent Title: IMAGE SENSING DEVICE
-
Application No.: US15597312Application Date: 2017-05-17
-
Publication No.: US20180054578A1Publication Date: 2018-02-22
- Inventor: Tatsuya KITAMORI , Fumiyasu SASAKI , Fumihide MURAO
- Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Priority: JP2016-159804 20160817; JP2016-231426 20161129
- Main IPC: H04N5/361
- IPC: H04N5/361 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/376 ; H04N5/347 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
To solve the problem of conventional image sensing devices that require much time for reading pixel signals, an image sensing device according to an embodiment includes a first pixel unit coupled to a first vertical read line, a second pixel unit coupled to a second vertical read line and placed in the column of the first pixel unit, a first transfer switch provided at an end of the first read line, and a second transfer switch provided at an end of the second read line. When the first transfer switch is controlled to be closed and the second transfer switch is controlled to be conductive, the image sensing device performs a reset process of the vertical read line by a dark level signal output from the second pixel unit, and a conversion process of the dark level read from the first pixel unit, and the pixel signal into digital values.
Public/Granted literature
- US10038863B2 Image sensing device Public/Granted day:2018-07-31
Information query