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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshikazu Nitta, Tokyo, JP;
Noriyuki Fukushima, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinori Muramatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukihiko Yasui, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system and method for driving a solid-state image pickup device including a pixel array unit including unit pixels. Each unit pixel includes a photoelectric converter, column signal lines and a number of analog-digital converting units. The unit pixels are selectively controlled in units of rows. Analog signals output from the unit pixels in a row selected by the selective control though the column signal lines are converted to digital signals via the analog-digital converting units. The digital signals are added among a number of unit pixels via the analog-digital converting units. The added digital signals from the analog-digital converting units are read. Each unit pixel in the pixel array unit is selectively controlled in units of arbitrary rows, the analog-distal converting units being operable to performing the converting in a (a) normal-frame-rate mode and a (b) high-frame-rate mode in response to control signals.