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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:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1997
Nobutoshi Shimamura, Kyoto, JP;
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An image sensor has a plurality of sensor integrated circuit devices of the same configuration arranged in a row. Each sensor integrated circuit device has a plurality of light-sensing elements, a sensor circuit for successively outputting the outputs of these light-sensing elements, and an amplifier circuit. It further has a first output terminal for directing the output of the sensor circuit out of the sensor integrated circuit device, an input terminal for directing an external signal to the amplifier circuit, and a second output terminal for directing the output of the amplifier circuit out of the sensor integrated circuit device. The first output terminal of each sensor integrated circuit device is connected to the input terminal of a particular sensor integrated circuit device so that the output of every light-sensing element is amplified by the amplifier circuit of that particular sensor integrated circuit device alone.
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