Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Sony Corporation

Other

Satoshi Kato

Mamoru Nozomi

Akiteru Fujii

Yuuta Kumano

Hideo Kobayashi

Hidekazu Takahashi

Hirofumi Totsuka

Teruyuki Mitsumori

Kazuhiro Saito

Yuichiro Yamashita

Toshiaki Ono

Yukihiro Kuroda

Koichiro Iwata

Tetsuya Itano

Mahito Shinohara

Tetsunobu Kochi

Katsuhito Sakurai

Masanori Ogura

Takeshi Akiyama

Takanori Yamashita

Takanori Suzuki

Atsuhiro Kumagai

Tatsuya Ryoki

Masaaki Ishihara

Masanobu Ohmura

Nobuyoshi Kobayashi

Kohei Matsumoto

Yuji Gendai

Yoshiaki Takada

Kazunori Yano

Masayuki Tsuchiya

Chiyoko Sato

Shuji Tobashi

Itaru Ogawa

Rie Shirahama

Keigo Nakazawa

Atsushi Kusuno

Nobuyuki Asai

Shusuke Yanagawa

Kazumasa Nishimoto

Yuuko Motegi

A radiation detection apparatus according to the present invention includes: a direct-detection-type radiation detector provided in plurality and configured to be arranged in a planar manner; and a semiconductor integrated circuit configured to perform a control operation of the radiation detector or processing on a signal from the radiation detector, wherein the semiconductor integrated circuit is disposed on a back side of the light-receiving surface so as to be included within an area of the radiation detector in a plan view viewed from a side of a light-receiving surface of the radiation detector.

Radiation detection apparatus

A light emitting device in which a first substrate including a first semiconductor substrate and a first wiring layer, a second substrate including a second semiconductor substrate and a second wiring layer, and a light emitting layer are stacked. The light emitting layer is arranged between a structure including the first substrate and the second substrate and a predetermined virtual plane. At least one of the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer includes a pad electrode. The light emitting layer and the structure include an aperture that exposes the pad electrode to the virtual plane.

Light emitting device, image capturing device, electronic apparatus, and moving body

The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor component including a first circuit section and an interconnection connected to the first circuit section, and a second semiconductor component including a second circuit section and a third circuit section and stacked on the first semiconductor component. The interconnection is electrically connected to a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion of a plurality of connecting portions for electrically connecting the first semiconductor component and the second semiconductor component. The second circuit section is electrically connected to the interconnection via the first connecting portion. The third circuit section is electrically connected to the interconnection via the second connecting portion.

Semiconductor device and equipment

An imaging device includes: a first pad portion that is connected to a voltage supply line in an aperture pixel region, and to which a reference voltage from outside of the semiconductor substrate is supplied; and a second pad portion that is connected to the voltage supply line in the light-shielded pixel region, and to which the reference voltage from outside of the semiconductor substrate is supplied, the second pad portion being separated from the first pad portion.

Imaging device and imaging system

A signal processing circuit includes a reference signal line, a processing circuit that processes a potential of the reference signal line and a potential of an input signal, a first reference voltage supplying circuit that outputs a predetermined potential to one end of the reference signal line, and a second reference voltage supplying circuit that outputs a predetermined potential to the other end of the reference signal line.

Signal processing circuit, photoelectric conversion apparatus, and equipment

A photoelectric conversion device comprising: a first signal transfer unit group having a plurality of signal transfer units which transfer digital signals to a first common output line from a first holding circuit group; and a second signal transfer unit group having a plurality of signal transfer units which transfer digital signals to a second common output line from a second holding circuit group, wherein each of the plurality of signal transfer units is capable of transiting to a second state in which current consumption is less than current consumption in a first state, and, in a predetermined period, a number of the signal transfer units in the second state increases in the first signal transfer unit group and a number of the signal transfer units in the second state decreases in the second signal transfer unit group.

Photoelectric conversion device, imaging system, and movable body

A photoelectric conversion apparatus, comprising: a pixel array; a first and a second signal line groups; a first and a second readout circuit groups; a first multiplexer group that selects one of at least two first signal lines, and connects the selected first signal line to one first readout circuit; and a second multiplexer group that selects one of at least two second signal lines, and connects the selected second signal line to one second readout circuit, a number of the first readout circuits is more than a number of the first signal lines, a number of the second readout circuits is more than a number of the second signal lines, the selection operations by the first and second multiplexer groups are executable independently from each other, the selection operation of the first multiplexer group is controlled collectively, and the selection operation of the second multiplexer group is controlled collectively.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, imaging system, mobile body and signal processing apparatus

Provided is a photoelectric conversion apparatus, including: a sensor cell unit including a photoelectric conversion unit, an amplification unit, a select switch, and a reset switch, the amplification unit including an input node and an output node; an output line; a signal processing unit; and a control unit. The output node is electrically connected to the signal processing unit via the select switch and via the output line in this order. The input node is electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion unit, and is electrically connected to the signal processing unit via the reset switch and via the output line in this order. The control unit controls the reset switch and the select switch to be both in a conductive state in a predetermined period.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, switching an electric path between a conductive state and a non-conductive state

A solid-state image sensor is provided. The sensor includes a first transistor including a first diffusion region, a second transistor including a second diffusion region and an insulation film arranged over these transistors. The insulation film includes a first and a second film. A first portion of the first diffusion region covered with the insulation film includes a second portion covered with only the second film. A third portion of the second diffusion region covered with the insulation film includes a fourth portion covered with the first and second film. A stress in the fourth portion is larger than the second portion. A proportion of an area of the first portion except the second portion to an area of the first portion is lower than a proportion of an area of the fourth portion to an area of the third portion.

Solid-state image sensor and method of manufacturing the same

A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a signal line, a circuit block, and a control circuit. The circuit block includes a differential amplifier circuit including a feedback path, a first switch that controls conduction between an output terminal and the signal line, a second switch that controls conduction between an inverting input terminal and the signal line, and a third switch that controls conduction between the inverting input terminal and the output terminal. The control circuit controls a signal for controlling the first switch and a signal for controlling the third switch to have the relation of logical NOT.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, focus detection apparatus, and image capturing system

A photoelectric conversion apparatus of the present invention includes: a plurality of pixel arrays having different colors and arrayed in the subsidiary scanning direction when the photoelectric conversion apparatus scans a document relatively in the subsidiary scanning direction, each of the plurality of pixel arrays including a plurality of pixels that perform photoelectric conversion; and a pulse controlling unit which controls pulse positions of control pulses that control operations of the pixels, wherein the pulse controlling unit controls the pulse positions of the control pulses for the pixel arrays of each color, according to color offset quantities in the subsidiary scanning direction of the pixel arrays of each color.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus

A sensor has first pixels each including one of red, green and blue color filters, and second pixels each including one of red, green and blue color filters. In the first and second pixels including color filters of the same color, light transmittances of the light transmissive portions are different. A light transmittance of the light transmissive portion of the first pixel including the red color filter is lower than that of the light transmissive portion of the first pixel including the green color filter, and a light transmittance of the transmissive portion of the first pixel including the green color filter is lower than that of the light transmissive portion of the first pixel including the blue color filter.

Solid-state image sensor and camera utilizing light attenuating films

A photoelectric conversion apparatus has: a plurality of pixels having mutually different color filters, and generating pixel signals by a photoelectric conversion; a color selecting switch for selecting the pixel signals generated by the plurality of pixels having mutually different color filters; a first amplifier circuit for amplifying at mutually different gains the pixel signals generated by the pixels having mutually different color filters and selected by the color selecting switch; a reference voltage connecting switch for selecting a reference voltage; and a second amplifier circuit for amplifying at mutually different gains the reference voltages correspondingly to the pixel signals of mutually different colors.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus that amplifies reference voltages corresponding to pixel signals of different colors at different gains

A solid-state imaging apparatus wherein pixels have same color filter in a same row, and have different color filters in different rows; and a color selecting unit selects and outputs, in an order of colors, the signals held by the plurality of holding units, to meet: y=ax+(b/c&#x2212;d)x, wherein the pixels are arranged at a pitch 'x' in a same row direction, and arranged at a pitch 'y' in a same column direction, the &#x201c;a&#x201d; is a first coefficient equal to or larger than 1, the &#x201c;b&#x201d; is a shift of a charge accumulation period of the pixels in one row from a charge accumulation period of the pixels in a row adjacent to the one row, the &#x201c;c&#x201d; is a period of outputting the signals from the selecting unit, the signals generated by the plurality of pixels and the &#x201c;d&#x201d; is a second coefficient that is equal to or larger than 0 and equal to or less than 0.15.

Solid-state imaging apparatus and imaging system

A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes plural pixel arrays arranged side-by-side in a first direction, each of the plurality of pixel arrays including a plurality of pixels that perform photoelectric conversion. A pulse controlling unit supplies control pulses to the pixel arrays of each color, according to color offset quantities formed in the first direction.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus with color control pulse based on color offset quantity

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Kawasaki, Japan

Satoshi Kato