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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2021
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Shin Kitano, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes a photoelectric converter that generates a charge according to a received light amount, and a charge transfer region that is disposed at a place inside a substrate not exposed to a substrate surface and in contact with the photoelectric converter, and to which the charge generated by the photoelectric converter is transferred. The imaging apparatus further includes a charge accumulation region that is disposed apart from the charge transfer region in a substrate surface direction and accumulates the charge transferred from the charge transfer region, a transistor that performs control to transfer the charge from the charge transfer region to the charge accumulation region, and a detector that outputs a detection signal indicating whether or not an absolute value of a change amount of an electrical signal according to an amount of the charge transferred by the transistor exceeds a predetermined threshold value.