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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2018
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a method of driving a solid-state imaging device, the solid-state imaging device including a plurality of column circuits which are arranged for each column of pixels and an amplification and selection circuit configured to amplify a differential signal based on a column pixel signal and a column reset signal, the method including causing the amplification and selection circuit to perform at least two operations among a first operation of sampling the column pixel signal, a second operation of sampling the column reset signal, and a third operation of output the amplified differential signal in parallel in the same period; and causing components connected to different horizontal signal lines to perform operations corresponding to the first to third operation in that order, and causing the components to perform different operations in parallel in the same period with respect to the first to third operations.