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Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2008
Applicants:

Tsutomu Nishide, Kanagawa, JP;

Akihiko Kato, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Tsutomu Nishide, Kanagawa, JP;

Akihiko Kato, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes a reflection timing control signal output unit, a data holding unit, and a collective-reflection processing unit. The reflection timing control signal output unit outputs a reflection timing control signal for controlling a timing of outputting operation setting data. The data holding unit latches the operation setting data inputted from outside and outputs the operation setting data. The collective-reflection processing unit collectively latches the operation setting data in synchronism with the reflection timing control signal, and outputs the latched operation setting data to a driving section. The reflection timing control signal output unit receives a vertical synchronization signal and an end-of-communication signal representative of an end of communication of a series of operation setting data from outside, and outputs the reflection timing control signal to the collective-reflection processing unit in synchronism with the vertical synchronization signal after the end-of-communication signal is received.


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