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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:
May. 19, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2018
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takuya Sano, Tokyo, JP;

Toshifumi Wakano, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corproation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/359 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3595 (2013.01); H01L 27/146 (2013.01); H01L 27/14609 (2013.01); H01L 27/14645 (2013.01); H04N 5/355 (2013.01); H04N 5/3559 (2013.01); H04N 5/374 (2013.01); H04N 5/3745 (2013.01); H04N 5/37457 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device for suppressing deterioration of pixel characteristics while guaranteeing the operating range of VSLs. A solid-state imaging device according to a first aspect of this disclosure has multiple pixel sharing units each including multiple photoelectric conversion sections each configured to correspond to a pixel, an accumulation section configured to be shared by the plurality of photoelectric conversion sections and to accumulate charges generated thereby, and multiple transistors configured to control reading of the charges accumulated in the accumulation section. The plurality of transistors in each pixel sharing unit are arranged symmetrically. The plurality of transistors include a transistor that functions as a switch to change conversion efficiency. The present disclosure may be applied to back-illuminated CMOS image sensors, for example.


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