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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2021
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Abe, Kanagawa, JP;
Ikuhiro Yamamura, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state image pickup device includes a plurality of pixels, a pixel connection section, and a pixel reset section. The plurality of pixels each include a photoelectric conversion section that generates a charge according to irradiated light, a charge holding section that holds the generated charge, and a signal generation section that generates as an image signal a signal according to the held charge. The pixel connection section conducts between charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels and thereby allows each of the charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels to hold the charge that has been generated by the photoelectric conversion section of one pixel of the plurality of pixels. The pixel reset section discharges and resets the charge of the respective charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels when the pixel connection section conducts between the respective charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels.