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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2017
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Woong-Hee Lee, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/361 (2011.01); H04N 5/363 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/361 (2013.01); H04N 5/363 (2013.01); H04N 5/3745 (2013.01);
Abstract
A unit pixel apparatus may include a plurality of unit pixels including a reset transistor, each unit pixel being suitable for outputting a pixel signal corresponding to incident light; a reset transistor gate voltage transmission unit suitable for transmitting a plurality of reset transistor gate voltages; and a first voltage switching unit suitable for transmitting a first supply voltage among the plurality of reset transistor gate voltages to a gate terminal of the reset transistor in each of the unit pixels during a period from an exposure start time to just before a readout time.