Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid state imaging device and method of driving solid state imaging device
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Application No.: US14556476Application Date: 2014-12-01
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Publication No.: US09838631B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Yukio Araoka
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2013-269556 20131226
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H03M1/34

Abstract:
A solid state imaging device includes a pixel circuit 102 configured to generate a pixel signal by photoelectric conversion, a reference signal generation circuit 115 configured to generate a reference signal which changes in level with time, and a plurality of comparators configured to, based on the reference signal generated by the reference signal generation circuit, compare a plurality of reference signals being given offset voltages differing from each other, with the pixel signal, or compare a plurality of pixel signals being given offset voltages differing from each other, with the reference signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150189203A1 SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-07-02
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