Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid state imaging device
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Application No.: US15832038Application Date: 2017-12-05
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Publication No.: US10531033B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Morita , Kei Ochiai , Tetsuya Itano
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2016-255024 20161228
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N1/00 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/376

Abstract:
Provided is an imaging device including a pixel array including pixels; a readout circuit that reads out signals from the pixels; a temperature sensor that outputs a signal in accordance with a temperature; and a current control circuit that controls a current supplied to the temperature sensor. The current control circuit performs control in a first period such that a predetermined current is supplied to the temperature sensor, and performs control in a second period such that a current supplied to the temperature sensor becomes smaller than the predetermined current or stops. The first period is set in a first blanking period between a process in which the first readout circuit reads out one frame of signals output from the pixels and a process in which the first readout circuit reads out next one frame of signals output from the pixels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180184031A1 SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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