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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2020
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Inventors:
Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sakai, JP;
Yoshinao Morikawa, Sakai, JP;
Assignee:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H01L 27/148 (2006.01); H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/37455 (2013.01); H01L 27/14831 (2013.01); H04N 5/3532 (2013.01); H04N 5/3559 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solid-state image sensing device is of a global-shutter type and includes a vertical driving unit and an analog-to-digital (AD) converter. The vertical driving unit performs a shutter operation during a time period from when the AD converter starts an AD conversion to when the AD converter ends the AD conversion. The AD converter does not output a digital signal during a time period from when the vertical driving unit starts the shutter operation to when the vertical driving unit ends the shutter operation.