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US07864094B2 Solid-state image sensing device, imaging method, and imaging apparatus
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固态图像感测装置,成像方法和成像装置
- Patent Title: Solid-state image sensing device, imaging method, and imaging apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固态图像感测装置,成像方法和成像装置
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Application No.: US12458043Application Date: 2009-06-30
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Publication No.: US07864094B2Publication Date: 2011-01-04
- Inventor: Hirotaka Kitami
- Applicant: Hirotaka Kitami
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
- Priority: JP2008-207442 20080811
- Main IPC: H03M1/56
- IPC: H03M1/56

Abstract:
A solid-state image sensing device includes: a pixel unit that has plural pixels and outputs analog pixel signals; a ramp signal generator unit that generates a ramp signal having a predetermined initial voltage and a fixed gradient; and an analog-digital converter unit that compares the analog pixel signals output by the pixel unit to the ramp signal generated by the ramp signal generator unit and digitally converts the analog pixel signals based on a comparison time, wherein the analog-digital converter unit can perform operation in a digital addition mode of adding the analog pixel signals output from the plural pixels of the pixel unit among plural pixels and outputting the signals as digital pixel signals, and the ramp signal generator unit can set the initial voltage of the ramp signal to an arbitrary value after resetting a potential of the ramp signal in the digital addition mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100033362A1 Solid-state image sensing device, imaging method, and imaging apparatus Public/Granted day:2010-02-11
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