Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshiaki Miyamoto

Satoshi Suzuki

Masanori Ogura

Nobuhiro Takeda

Masanori Tanaka

Takuya Hara

A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising: a pixel array; a signal line; a processing circuit; a switch for controlling conduction between the signal line and an input node of the processing circuit; and a control unit. The control unit performs a first transition in which, after resetting of the processing circuit, the switch is transitioned to an OFF state and then, during a period after the floating diffusion is reset during which the pixel signals are read out of the pixels into the signal line, the switch is transitioned at least from the OFF state to an ON state; keeps the switch in the OFF state during a period during which the transfer transistor is performing the transfer; and performs a second transition in which, after the transfer, the switch is transitioned from the OFF state to the ON state.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus

An image sensor with a simple configuration that generates an image to which a filter has been applied is disclosed. An image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photoelectric converter that detects incidence of single photons; and a counter that counts pulses present in an output signal from the photoelectric converter. The image sensor outputs a count value as a pixel value, wherein the count value is obtained by counting the pulses present in the output signals from a plurality of the photoelectric converters in a first period, or by counting the pulses present in the output signal from a single photoelectric converter in the first period and a second period.

Image sensor and electronic device having the same for outputting a count value as a pixel value by counting pulses present in the output signals from photoelectric converters

An image sensor provided with an imaging unit including a plurality of photoelectric converters, the image sensor comprises: an input unit to which compressed image data is input from the outside of the image sensor; a decompressor for decompressing the compressed image data input from the input unit; and an image processor that applies image processing to image pickup data obtained from the imaging unit and to the image data decompressed by the decompressor.

Image sensor and image capturing apparatus

An image sensor to which is provided an image sensing plane that receives light from a subject whose image has been formed by a lens, the image sensing plane having a flat shape portion and a curved shape portion.

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Tama, Japan

Yoshiaki Miyamoto