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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2019
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yuuya Miyoshi, Osaka, JP;
Tohru Kanno, Osaka, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric converter including a plurality of light receiving elements arranged along one direction in correspondence with each color of received light/each light receiving element generating an electric charge corresponding to an amount of received light, an electric charge storage unit including a plurality of capacitors storing the electric charges generated by the respective light receiving elements, and a signal processing unit configured to process each of the electric charges stored by the plurality of capacitors as a signal. The electric charge storage unit is disposed so as to oppose the signal processing unit across the photoelectric converter.