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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1992
Filed:
May. 03, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Norimasa Kumada, Itami, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 24 ; 357 30 ; 377 60 ;
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device utilizing a charge skimming transfer system includes a sampling circuit for each of a plurality of pixels for detecting a quantity of signal charge light-electricity converted by the respective pixels and outputs a voltage level in accordance therewith, and a charge input section for performing skimming transfer of the signal charge light-electricity converted by the respective pixels using the output voltage of said sampling circuit as a skimming voltage thereof.