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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2004
Yoshihisa Shimazu, Mukou, JP;
Ryouichi Nagayoshi, Nishinomiya, JP;
Toshiya Fujii, Ohtsu, JP;
Toshiyuki Nakashima, Minoo, JP;
Toshinobu Hatano, Nagaokakyo, JP;
Jun Kajiwara, Yawata, JP;
Kenji Arakawa, Toyonaka, JP;
Toshiya Kogishi, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshihisa Shimazu, Mukou, JP;
Ryouichi Nagayoshi, Nishinomiya, JP;
Toshiya Fujii, Ohtsu, JP;
Toshiyuki Nakashima, Minoo, JP;
Toshinobu Hatano, Nagaokakyo, JP;
Jun Kajiwara, Yawata, JP;
Kenji Arakawa, Toyonaka, JP;
Toshiya Kogishi, Kyoto, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state image sensing apparatus including a solid-state image sensing device and a signal processing circuit. The solid-state image sensing device includes: a vertical transfer unit, composed of transfer columns corresponding to columns of the light-to-electric conversion elements, operable to transfer, in a vertical direction, signal charges read out from the light-to-electric conversion elements; a horizontal transfer unit operable to receive the signal charges from the vertical transfer unit and transfer them in a horizontal direction. The signal processing circuit converts the signal charges from the horizontal transfer unit into pixel data, and rearranges it into a two-dimensional array. In the rearrangement, the signal processing circuit, per transfer of one piece of pixel data, cyclically selects a line memory out of three line memories, writes a piece of pixel data into the selected line memory, or reads a row of pixel data from the selected line memory.