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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1993

Filed:

Jun. 18, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:

Hirotsugu Kashimura, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2502081 ; 35821326 ; 257443 ;
Abstract

An image sensor which has a simple construction, and can read a voltage value, not a current value, based on the quantity of light received by the photo diode, and can read charge of the light sensing elements every block. A plurality of light sensing elements each consisting of a photo diode and a blocking diode, make up a block. A plurality of blocks are arrayed. The blocking diodes are connected to a shift register for transferring a bias voltage thereto. The lead wires from the photo diodes are connected to common signal lines. The common signal lines are respectively connected to load capacitors. Potential caused in each common signal line by the charge stored in the corresponding load capacitor is read out.


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