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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2019
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yukihiro Kuroda, Inagi, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/36963 (2018.08); H01L 27/14634 (2013.01); H04N 5/35563 (2013.01); H04N 5/379 (2018.08); H04N 5/37455 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment includes a plurality of pixels each including a light receiving unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon, and a signal generation unit that generates a signal in accordance with the number of pulses output from the light receiving unit, wherein the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel in which an upper limit value of a signal generated by the signal generation unit is a first value and a second pixel in which an upper limit value of a signal generated by the signal generation unit is a second value that is smaller than the first value.