Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor, electronic device, control device, control method, and program
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Application No.: US15852145Application Date: 2017-12-22
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Publication No.: US10264203B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Takeshi Aoki
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2015-249785 20151222
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N5/374 ; H01L27/146 ; H01L27/088 ; H04N5/357 ; H01L27/02 ; H01L29/423 ; H03M1/56 ; H01L29/06 ; H01L29/49 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
The present technology relates to an image sensor capable of achieving both higher S/N and higher frame rate, an electronic device, a control device, a control method, and a program.An AD converter has a comparator in which differential pairs are provided at an input stage. The differential pairs have a plurality of transistors as first transistors and second transistors paired to configure the differential pairs. The AD converter compares a level-changing reference signal with an electric signal output by a shooting unit for performing photoelectric conversion and outputting the electric signal, thereby performing AD conversion on the electric signal. The comparator is controlled such that a transistor to be operated is selected as active transistor from among the transistors depending on the amount of light incident in the shooting unit and the active transistor operates. The present technology is applicable to an image sensor for shooting an image, and the like, for example.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180124345A1 IMAGE SENSOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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