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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); G01J 1/44 (2006.01); H01L 31/107 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); G01J 1/44 (2013.01); H04N 5/374 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/3745 (2013.01); G01J 2001/442 (2013.01); G01J 2001/4466 (2013.01); H01L 31/107 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device includes a detector, a count value storage, and a reader. The detector includes an avalanche amplification type light receiving element that detects a photon, and a resetter that resets an output potential of the light receiving element, and outputs a digital signal that indicates the presence or absence of incidence of a photon on the light receiving element. The count value storage performs counting by converting the digital signal output from the detector to an analog voltage, and stores the result of counting as a count value. The reader outputs an analog signal indicating the count value.