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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
May. 26, 2009
Daisuke Muraoka, Chiba, JP;
Daisuke Muraoka, Chiba, JP;
Seiko Instruments Inc., Chiba, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a photoelectric converter capable of performing high-speed image reading and resolution switching at the same time. The photoelectric converter includes a plurality of common read lines, and thus parallel output is produced, which enables image reading at high speed. In addition, a photoelectric conversion block () is capable of communicating with another photoelectric conversion block (), whereby the common read lines, to which nodes (E) of a plurality of the photoelectric conversion blocks () adjacent to each other are connected, can be made the same. For this reason, voltages of those nodes (E) can be equalized in the same common read line, and hence switching between image resolutions can be realized.