Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd.

Hoya Corporation

Konica Corporation

Kokusai Denshin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha

Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Calsonic Corporation

Tdk Corporation

Tdk Electronics Company, Limited

Texas Instruments Corporation

Jeol Ltd.

Ishikawajima-harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Kinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideo Kobayashi

Daisuke Yoshida

Masahiro Nakamura

Kazuo Yamazaki

Tetsuya Itano

Kohichi Nakamura

Masanori Ogura

Tetsunobu Kochi

Takayuki Suzuki

Hiroki Hiyama

Fumihiro Inui

Hiroshi Arisawa

Kazuhiro Saito

Masaki Sato

Yukihiro Kuroda

Haruo Harada

Motohiko Sakamaki

Koji Yamaguchi

Katsuhito Sakurai

Takanori Suzuki

Kiichi Ueyanagi

Hiroaki Kameyama

Minoru Koshimizu

Satoshi Kato

Masahiro Kobayashi

Hirofumi Totsuka

Naoki Hiji

Yutaka Matsumoto

Koichiro Iwata

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi

Yu Maehashi

Tatsuya Suzuki

Kazuo Hashimoto

Shigeharu Koboshi

Tsutomu Ishii

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Hiroshi Hayashi

Takeshi Akiyama

Kiyoshi Kimura

Jun Matsuda

So Hasegawa

Shinichi Shinohara

Hiroyasu Ishikawa

Takehito Hikichi

Kei Ochiai

Osamu Ueno

Takeo Kakinuma

Yoshiaki Takada

Hironobu Nishimura

Masaaki Lawrence Araki

Hideo Ishii

Takahiro Shirai

Hideyuki Shinonaga

Toshiyuki Ikariya

Mamoru Fujita

Kohei Matsumoto

Hiroyuki Inaba

Akihide Kawamura

Yasuhiro Oguro

Hiroe Okuyama

Mieko Seki

Shoji Kono

Toshio Mizuno

Tomozumi Uesaka

Keisuke Takahashi

Masaaki Iwane

Chikara Manabe

Yasushi Matsuno

Akemi Murakami

Kazutoshi Torashima

Masatsugu Itahashi

Masahiro Mori

Daisuke Iguchi

Hiroaki Hashimoto

Masashi Kitani

Akihiko Hosaka

Kazuhiro Sonoda

Takehiko Soda

Mineo Uchida

Seiichirou Sakai

Takashi Obara

Tomohisa Kinugasa

Shigeru Yamamoto

Kazuki Ohshitanai

Yoshio Takeuchi

Shinichi Nomoto

Toshio Ichida

Yasuji Ikeda

Hiroyuki Muto

Yutaka Takei

Kiyotaka Okuyama

Yukihiro Isobe

Giichi Shibuya

Masami Furuya

Toshiaki Sonehara

Daisuke Inoue

Takahiro Kan

Tatsuo Watanabe

Osamu Shibazaki

Katsuyoshi Takahashi

A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels arranged to form a column, each of the plurality of pixels being configured to output a signal based on charge generated in a photoelectric conversion unit, a plurality of output lines provided corresponding to the column, each of the plurality of output lines being connected to at least one of the plurality of pixels, and a column circuit connected to the plurality of output lines. The plurality of output lines includes a first output line and a second output line. The column circuit includes a speed-up circuit configured to promote a change in potential, and a selection circuit configured to select one of the first output line and the second output line and connect the selected one to the speed-up circuit.

Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, movable object and equipment

Photoelectric conversion apparatus includes read circuit for reading signals of pixel array, and signal processing unit for generating pixel signal by performing CDS on signals read by the read circuit and performing shading correction on the pixel signal. The read circuit has function of reading signal of the pixel array with first and second gain. The read circuit reads noise level with the first gain and reads optical signal level with the first or second gain from selected effective pixel for the correlated double sampling. In the shading correction, pixel signal of effective pixel from which optical signal level has been read with the first gain is corrected based on first correction value, and pixel signal of effective pixel from which optical signal level has been read with the second gain is corrected based on second correction value.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and photoelectric conversion method for shading correction

A device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a first pixel and a second pixel of the plurality of pixels corresponding to different colors, the first pixel and a third pixel of the plurality of pixels corresponding to a same color, a first circuit group connected to the first pixel, a third circuit group connected to the third pixel, and a first circuit included in the first circuit group, a second circuit, and a third circuit included in the third circuit group and having a function same as a function of the first circuit, the third circuit being arranged between the first circuit and the second circuit in a top view.

Device, system, moving body, and substrate

A photoelectric conversion apparatus included pixel circuits, signal lines, current sources, a switching circuit configured to switch a connection state among the plurality of signal lines and the plurality of current sources, and a control circuit configured to control the connection state of the switching circuit. The switching circuit can implement a first connection state in which a first signal line and a second signal line are insulated from each other, a first current source is electrically connected to the first signal line, and a second current source is electrically connected to the second signal line, and a second connection state in which at least the first current source is electrically connected to at least the second signal line. The control circuit selects the first and second connection states in first and second operation modes, respectively.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus and equipment

A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, and a control circuit configured to control the plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels include a photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate a signal charge, a floating diffusion unit, a transfer transistor configured to transfer the signal charge to the floating diffusion unit, and a transistor configured to be electrically connected to the floating diffusion unit. The control circuit outputs a row selection pulse configured to select the pixel arranged in a row direction, and a pixel control pulse having a rise time longer than a rise time of the row selection pulse. The pixel control pulse is entered to a gate of the transistor.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus and system

A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a first output line electrically connectable to the first pixel, a second output line electrically connectable to the second pixel, a first comparator electrically connectable to the first output line, and a second comparator electrically connectable to the second output line, wherein the first output line is electrically connectable to the second comparator via a first wiring line, the second output line is electrically connectable to the first comparator via a second wiring line, and the first wiring line and the second wiring line are electrically isolated from each other.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus and equipment including the same

A photoelectric conversion device including: a pixel; a signal line to which a signal is output from the pixel; a capacitive element having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal being connected to the signal line; and a first control line. A variable potential is applied to the second terminal due to a change in a potential of the first control line.

Photoelectric conversion device

A semiconductor apparatus according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor component including a cell array and a plurality of wirings; and a semiconductor component including a plurality of pads connected to the semiconductor component including the cell array. A first row pad connected to a row wiring connected to a first cell and a second cell, a second row pad connected to a row wiring connected to a third cell and a fourth cell, and a column pad connected to a column wiring connected to the first cell and the third cell are arranged such that a straight line connecting the first row pad and the column pad crosses a straight line connecting the second row pad and the column pad.

Semiconductor apparatus and equipment

A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel which includes a photoelectric conversion element; a signal line connected with the pixel; a voltage-current conversion unit configured to convert a voltage signal of the signal line into current; and a conversion unit that includes an oversampling type analog-to-digital conversion circuit that converts the current outputted from the voltage-current conversion unit into digital signals. The voltage-current conversion unit converts the voltage signal of the signal line into the current without sampling and holding and outputs the converted current to the conversion unit.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system and equipment

Photoelectric conversion apparatus includes pixel array having effective pixel, a readout circuit configured to read out signal of the pixel array, and signal processing unit configured to perform correlated double sampling process and correction process on signals read out from the effective pixel by the readout circuit. The readout circuit has function of reading out signal of the pixel array with first gain, and function of reading out signal of the pixel array with second gain. Correction value for the correction process is generated based on difference between signal read out from the pixel array with the first gain when noise level is output from the pixel array, and signal read out from the pixel array with the second gain when noise level is output from the pixel array.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and photoelectric conversion method

A photoelectric conversion device including pixels arranged to form rows, a scanning circuit that performs scanning for sequentially outputting a signal from the pixel on a row basis, and a processing circuit that processes a signal output from the pixel. The processing circuit corrects, based on a first reset signal and a second reset signal based on a reset state of the pixel, an optical signal based on incident light. The scanning circuit performs scanning for outputting the optical signal and the first reset signal from the pixel by scans performed in different periods. The scanning circuit performs scanning for outputting the optical signal and the second reset signal from the pixel by a scan. The first reset signal, the second reset signal, and the optical signal are output from the pixel in a frame period in which signals to be used for generating a frame is output.

A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel array and a reading unit including a plurality of reading circuits each configured to read a signal from the pixel array. Each reading circuit includes a sample-and-hold unit including a first sample-and-hold circuit configured to hold a reset level output from the pixel array and a second sample-and-hold circuit configured to hold a photo signal level output from the pixel array. The plurality of reading circuits include first reading circuits forming a first group and second reading circuits forming a second group. At least some of the plurality of first reading circuits are controlled by a first control signal given via a first control line, and at least some of the plurality of second reading circuits are controlled by a second control signal given via a second control line.

Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body

A comparator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first differential transistor and a second differential transistor forming a differential pair, a first load transistor and a second load transistor respectively provided corresponding to the first differential transistor and the second differential transistor, and a first cascode transistor connected in cascode between the first differential transistor and the first load transistor.

Comparator, photoelectric conversion device, and apparatus

Provided is a signal processing device including a first substrate, a signal generation circuit arranged in the first substrate and configured to generate a reference signal to be used for comparison with a signal output from a pixel, a circuit element arranged in the first substrate and different from the signal generation circuit, and a contact region in which a contact connecting the first substrate and a wiring layer arranged over the first substrate is arranged. In a plan view with respect to the first substrate, the contact region is arranged between the signal generation circuit and the circuit element.

Signal processing device

An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, a first group of pixels that are arranged in a first direction among the plurality of pixels, a first line to which the first group is connected, a second group of pixels that are arranged in the first direction among the plurality of pixels, and a second line to which the second group is connected. The first line is connected to a first source. The second line is connected to a second source. The apparatus further includes a control unit configured to: (1) perform control to increase a current flowing through the second source while performing control to decrease a current flowing through the first source, or (2) suppress a variation of total amount of flowing current by changing the current flowing through the second source in response to a change in the current flowing through the first source.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, moving body, semiconductor substrate, and method for driving photoelectric conversion apparatus

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