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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 09, 2018
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Toru Kondo, Tokyo, JP;

Kosei Tamiya, Tokyo, JP;

Nobuyuki Watanabe, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/345 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H01L 27/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/345 (2013.01); H01L 27/14 (2013.01); H01L 27/1461 (2013.01); H01L 27/14605 (2013.01); H01L 27/14607 (2013.01); H01L 27/14634 (2013.01); H01L 27/14643 (2013.01); H04N 5/379 (2018.08); H04N 5/3745 (2013.01); H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H01L 27/14636 (2013.01); H04N 5/144 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes a first semiconductor substrate to which light is incident; a second semiconductor substrate stacked to the first semiconductor substrate; n first photoelectric conversion devices periodically arranged in the first semiconductor substrate and generating first electric charge signals; n first reading circuits arranged in correspondence with the n first photoelectric conversion devices in the first semiconductor substrate, respectively, each of the n first reading circuits accumulating the first electric charge signal outputting a signal voltage corresponding to the accumulated first electric charge signal as a first pixel signal; a driving circuit sequentially outputting the first pixel signal; m second photoelectric conversion devices periodically arranged in one of the first/second semiconductor substrates and generating second electric charge signals; and m second reading circuits sequentially outputting a second pixel signal, wherein m and n are natural numbers equal to 2 or more than 2.


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