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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshimitsu Tamagawa, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/7146 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/7146 ;
Abstract
An image-sensing semiconductor device has, in addition to a plurality of photodiodes, a dummy photodiode. The dummy photodiode is fed with a bias repeatedly with a predetermined period, and the plurality of photodiodes are fed with a bias sequentially with a predetermined cycle. The differences between the individual output signals of the plurality of photodiodes and the output signal of the dummy photodiode are calculated sequentially by a differential amplifier.