Invention Grant
US08687100B2 Solid-state imaging device, method of driving the device, and camera system with varied timing of sampling period for sampling a bias voltage during pixel readout
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固态成像装置,驱动装置的方法以及具有采样周期不同时间的摄像系统,用于在像素读出期间对偏置电压进行采样
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, method of driving the device, and camera system with varied timing of sampling period for sampling a bias voltage during pixel readout
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置,驱动装置的方法以及具有采样周期不同时间的摄像系统,用于在像素读出期间对偏置电压进行采样
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Application No.: US12923915Application Date: 2010-10-14
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Publication No.: US08687100B2Publication Date: 2014-04-01
- Inventor: Takayuki Toyama , Hiroyuki Iwaki
- Applicant: Takayuki Toyama , Hiroyuki Iwaki
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
- Priority: JP2009-260488 20091113
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section formed by pixels performing photoelectric conversion arranged in a matrix; a pixel signal readout section capable of column-parallel processing including an A/D conversion function for reading out a pixel signal from the pixel section and performing analog-digital conversion of the signal, the pixels being read in groups; a voltage sampling section sampling a bias voltage generated by an internal or external voltage generating circuit for a period in accordance with a control signal and supplying the sampled bias voltage to the pixel signal readout section; and a control section controlling the signal readout operation of the pixel signal readout section and the voltage sampling operation of the voltage sampling section. The pixel signal readout section includes a functional portion. The control section exercises control such that the voltage sampling operation is performed in a period other than at least either of a period in which an analog signal is read out or in which A/D conversion is carried out.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110115959A1 Solid-state imaging device, method of driving the device, and camera system Public/Granted day:2011-05-19
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