Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置
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Application No.: US14864169Application Date: 2015-09-24
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Publication No.: US09374505B2Publication Date: 2016-06-21
- Inventor: Takashi Abe , Nobuo Nakamura , Tomoyuki Umeda , Keiji Mabuchi , Hiroaki Fujita , Eiichi Funatsu , Hiroki Sato
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sheridan Ross P.C.
- Priority: JP2002-336252 20021120
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N3/14 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/374

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device is capable of simplifying the pixel structure to reduce the pixel size and capable of suppressing the variation in the characteristics between the pixels when a plurality of output systems is provided. A unit cell (30) includes two pixels (31) and (32). Upper and lower photoelectric converters (33) and (34), transfer transistors (35) and (36) connected to the upper and lower photoelectric converters, respectively, a reset transistor (37), and an amplifying transistor (38) form the two pixels (31) and (32). A full-face signal line 39 is connected to the respective drains of the reset transistor (37) and the amplifying transistor (38). Controlling the full-face signal line (39), along with transfer signal lines (42) and (43) and a reset signal line (41), to read out signals realizes the simplification of the wiring in the pixel, the reduction of the pixel size, and so on.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160014304A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-01-14
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