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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:
Feb. 23, 2010

Filed:

May. 08, 2007
Applicant:

Katsumi Ikeda, Miyagi, JP;

Inventor:

Katsumi Ikeda, Miyagi, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/893 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion unit, an analog shift register, and signal output unitsand. The analog shift register is divided into a first transfer sectionand a second transfer sectionwith a substantially central region of the analog shift register being set as a boundary. A common transfer sectionis provided in the boundary between the first transfer section and the second transfer section. The common transfer sectionselects, as a transfer path of signal charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, either a first path through the first transfer sectionor a second path through the second transfer section


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