Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid state imaging device, signal processing method of solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus capable of removing vertical smears
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置,固态成像装置的信号处理方法和能够去除垂直涂片的成像装置
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Application No.: US12052399Application Date: 2008-03-20
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Publication No.: US08264580B2Publication Date: 2012-09-11
- Inventor: Tomonori Mori , Nobuo Nakamura
- Applicant: Tomonori Mori , Nobuo Nakamura
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: SNR Denton US LLP
- Priority: JP2007-092177 20070330
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04N9/64

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device is disclosed. The device includes: a pixel array unit in which unit pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are two-dimensionally arranged and a first signal and a second signal are outputted to a signal line as a pixel signal; a signal processing unit including a variable gain amplifier, and an analog/digital converter; a signal supply unit supplying a reference signal; plural memory units holds the reference signal passed through the signal processing unit so as to correspond to the plural gains respectively when the variable gain amplifier is set at the plural gains respectively; and a correction unit subtracting the reference signal held in the plural memory units from the pixel signal outputted from each unit pixel in an active pixel area of the pixel array unit and passed through the signal processing unit when the variable gain amplifier is set at the plural gains respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080239124A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2008-10-02
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