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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:
Dec. 10, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2016
Applicant:

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Akihiko Kato, Tokyo, JP;

Hung Luong, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/357 (2011.01); H04N 5/376 (2011.01); H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/353 (2013.01); H04N 5/3577 (2013.01); H04N 5/374 (2013.01); H04N 5/376 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/3742 (2013.01); H04N 5/3765 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solid-state image pickup element according to the present disclosure includes an analog circuit unit that performs reading of a pixel signal from a unit pixel and to perform A/D conversion processing, a digital circuit unit that performs signal output processing of outputting pixel data after the A/D conversion processing, in parallel with the reading of the pixel signal and the A/D conversion processing, and a control unit that causes the digital circuit unit to perform the processing over a period from a processing start timing to a processing finish timing in the analog circuit unit, while the control unit is controlling a speed of a clock being a criterion for an operation of the digital circuit unit.


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