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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel region in which pixels are arranged to form rows and columns, control lines each connected to the pixels on a corresponding row, output lines connected to the pixels on a corresponding column, a pixel control unit configured to supply control signals to control the pixels for the control lines, and a signal processing unit configured to select and output a signal output to the output lines. The pixel region includes readout regions each including a block of the pixels arranged on continuous rows and columns, and at least one row includes both of the pixel of the block forming a first readout region and the pixel of the block forming a second readout region. The pixel control unit and the signal processing unit are configured to read out signals of the pixels in a corresponding block sequentially for each of the readout regions.