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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022
Filed:
May. 12, 2020
Applicant:
Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Norihiko Sumitani, Osaka, JP;
Yosuke Higashi, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H04N 5/376 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/3765 (2013.01); H04N 5/37455 (2013.01); H04N 5/37457 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device includes: a latch circuit that holds a digital signal of pixel data, the digital signal having 1 bit; a driver circuit that outputs the digital signal held in the latch circuit to a read bit line pair; a sense amplifier connected to the read bit line pair; and a selector circuit that selects whether the digital signal output from the sense amplifier is to be output in normal form or in inverted form.