Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置,固态成像装置的驱动方法和电子装置
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Application No.: US13064339Application Date: 2011-03-21
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Publication No.: US08493489B2Publication Date: 2013-07-23
- Inventor: Yusuke Oike , Akihiko Kato , Takafumi Takatsuka , Masaki Sakakibara
- Applicant: Yusuke Oike , Akihiko Kato , Takafumi Takatsuka , Masaki Sakakibara
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
- Priority: JPP2010-072309 20100326
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04N5/217

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including: a pixel array unit configured to be formed by two-dimensionally arranging unit pixels each having a photoelectric converter, a charge-voltage converter, a reset transistor to set the charge-voltage converter to a predetermined potential, and an amplification transistor to read out a signal converted by the charge-voltage converter; a signal processor configured to process a signal output from the unit pixel by using a reference voltage; and a setter configured to set a reset level obtained from a second unit pixel from which a signal level has been already read out as the reference voltage of the signal processor before readout of a signal level based on a signal charge accumulated or retained in the charge-voltage converter from a first unit pixel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120026370A1 Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus Public/Granted day:2012-02-02
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