Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensors and related methods and electronic devices
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Application No.: US14851396Application Date: 2015-09-11
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Publication No.: US09743022B2Publication Date: 2017-08-22
- Inventor: Min-Seok Oh , Seung-Sik Kim , Young-Chan Kim , Eun-Sub Shim , Dong-Joo Yang , Ji-Won Lee , Moo-Sup Lim
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Ward and Smith, P.A.
- Priority: KR10-2014-0134954 20141007
- Main IPC: H04N5/217
- IPC: H04N5/217 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/359

Abstract:
An image sensor is provided including a pixel array, a correlated double sampling (CDS) unit, an analog-digital converting (ADC) unit, a control unit, and an overflow power voltage control unit. The pixel array includes at least one unit pixel that generates accumulated charges corresponding to incident light in a photoelectric conversion period and outputs an analog signal based on the accumulated charges in a readout period. The CDS unit generates an image signal by performing a CDS operation on the analog signal. An ADC unit converts the image signal into a digital signal. A control unit controls the pixel array, the CDS unit, and the ADC unit. An overflow power voltage control unit controls an overflow power voltage to have a low voltage level in the photoelectric conversion period and controls the overflow power voltage to have a high voltage level in the readout period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160100113A1 Image Sensors and Related Methods and Electronic Devices Public/Granted day:2016-04-07
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