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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hideyuki Okada, Honjo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A radiation image capturing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises pixels, drivers to which row signal lines for driving the pixels for each row are respectively connected and a controller. The controller supplies, before radiation irradiation, selection signals to a driver group constituted by not less than two drivers which drive detection pixels, of the pixels, to cause each of the drivers included in the driver group to select a row signal line to which the detection pixels are connected, and the controller supplies, during radiation irradiation, a drive signal for driving pixels connected to a row signal line selected from the plurality of row signal lines to each driver included in the driver group to cause the radiation image capturing apparatus to acquire a signal for measuring a dose of radiation entering from each of the detection pixels.