- Patent Title: Imaging device and camera system that controls an operation current of a comparator during analog to digital conversion of a second pixel based on the digital signal of a previous pixel
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Application No.: US15991765Application Date: 2018-05-29
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Publication No.: US10666887B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Tsutomu Kobayashi , Yuusuke Shimizu
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@4c9ec88a
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04N5/374 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/353

Abstract:
An imaging device includes: pixels arranged in m rows by n columns; a comparator that generates a first output signal indicating a result of comparison between a first pixel signal outputted from each pixel located in an ath column among the pixels and a reference signal; a first counter that generates a first digital signal by counting a period from start of a first counting period to inversion of the first output signal; and a first control circuit that controls, in accordance with a magnitude correlation between the first digital signal obtained from a first pixel located at the ath column and a bth row and a threshold, an operation current of the comparator in the first counting period of a second pixel located at the ath column and a cth row different from the bth row.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180359440A1 IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-12-13
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