Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor and driving method thereof
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Application No.: US14806833Application Date: 2015-07-23
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Publication No.: US09698184B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Sekine
- Applicant: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Young & Thompson
- Priority: JP2014-149909 20140723
- Main IPC: G01T1/24
- IPC: G01T1/24 ; H01L27/146 ; H01L29/786

Abstract:
With an image sensor in which the amplifier circuit is disposed at each pixel, there is such an issue that the threshold voltage of the transistor fluctuates so that the signal voltage fluctuates because a voltage is continuously applied between the source and the gate of the transistor at all times when using the amorphous thin film semiconductor as the transistor that constitutes an amplifier circuit. The gate-source potential of the TFT that constitutes the amplifier circuit is controlled so that the gate terminal voltage becomes smaller than the source terminal voltage in an integrating period where the pixels accumulate the signals, and controlled so that the gate terminal voltage becomes larger than the source terminal voltage in a readout period where the pixels output the signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160027827A1 IMAGE SENSOR AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2016-01-28
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