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Patent No.:

US 8115153 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 15, 2009
Applicants:

Kazuhide Yokota, Kanagawa, JP;

Hisashi Kurebayashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuhide Yokota, Kanagawa, JP;

Hisashi Kurebayashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device which includes a pixel unit, a plurality of pixels in the pixel unit which are two dimensionally arranged in rows and columns and each include a photoelectric conversion element and a reset element, a driver unit which sequentially applies selective scanning to each respective row of the pixel unit, a mode switching circuit, where the mode switching circuit is configured to charge a portion of the pixels in the pixel unit and to apply an intermediate voltage to a gate of each reset element in the non-charged pixels.


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Yokota, Kazuhide. (2012). Solid state imaging device with mode selection, method of driving solid state imaging device, and image pickup apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 8115153). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8115153

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