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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2017
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Koushi Uemura, Kumamoto, JP;
Shingo Sanada, Fukuoka, JP;
Kiyoshige Tsuji, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideyuki Hanada, Fukuoka, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state imaging element of the present disclosure includes a pixel array unit in which unit pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit are arranged two-dimensionally in a matrix, and a floating diffusion is shared between a plurality of the unit pixels, and a drive unit that drives to discard, into the floating diffusion, a part of a charge of a non-read pixel sharing the floating diffusion with a read pixel, during a reset period of the floating diffusion of the read pixel for reading the charge.
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