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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. 26, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2018
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Sei Suzuki, Osaka, JP;

Tohru Yamada, Kyoto, JP;

Yasuyuki Shimizu, Kyoto, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/243 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 7/4863 (2020.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/243 (2013.01); G01S 7/4863 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); H01L 27/146 (2013.01); H01L 27/14607 (2013.01); H01L 27/14623 (2013.01); H01L 27/14636 (2013.01); H01L 27/14645 (2013.01); H01L 27/14649 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); G01S 7/4816 (2013.01); H04N 5/332 (2013.01);
Abstract

A plurality of pixels of a solid-state imaging device include: a photoelectric converter which receives light from an object and converts the light into charge; a plurality of readers which read the charge from the photoelectric converter; a plurality of charge accumulators each of which accumulates the charge of the photoelectric converter read from the plurality of readers; and a transfer controller which performs a transfer control including controlling whether the charge accumulated in one of the plurality of charge accumulators is transferred or blocked from being transferred to another one of the plurality of charge accumulators. The transfer controller is disposed between the plurality of charge accumulators.


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