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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. 04, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 18, 2018
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yu Arishima, Yokohama, JP;

Yasuhiro Oguro, Tokyo, JP;

Shinichiro Shimizu, Kawasaki, JP;

Satoshi Koizumi, Kawasaki, JP;

Masaya Ogino, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/365 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3658 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes pixels forming pixel rows, and a scanning circuit that performs a reset operation of a photoelectric converter and a readout operation of a pixel signal based on charges generated by the photoelectric converter including charge transfer from the photoelectric converter to the holding unit. The pixel rows include imaging rows and focus detection rows. The scanning circuit performs an image capture scan of the imaging rows and a focus detection scan of the focus detection rows, independently, such that signals of the focus detection rows are output after signals from the imaging rows. The scanning circuit performs the focus detection scan such that the reset operation on the focus detection row does not overlap with a charge transfer period on an imaging row belonging to a unit pixel row neighboring a unit pixel row to which a focus detection row under the reset operation belongs.


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