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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2010
Tsutomu Honda, Hachioji, JP;
Yuichi Gomi, Hachioji, JP;
Yoshinao Shimada, Hino, JP;
Jun Aoki, Kunitachi, JP;
Kazuhiro Haneda, Akiruno, JP;
Tsutomu Honda, Hachioji, JP;
Yuichi Gomi, Hachioji, JP;
Yoshinao Shimada, Hino, JP;
Jun Aoki, Kunitachi, JP;
Kazuhiro Haneda, Akiruno, JP;
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is an image pickup apparatus provided with a pixel section in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion section and a signal storage section that temporarily stores a signal charge of the photoelectric conversion section are two-dimensionally arrayed, that resets the signal storage sections before exposing a still image and reads reset data used to remove reset noise of a still image, configured to divide the pixel section into a plurality of pixel groups and sequentially reset the signal storage sections of the respective pixel groups by a transistor, sequentially read reset signals by a selection transistor and cause the selection transistor to read one or more times an LV signal charge generated by exposure of a predetermined pixel group within a time segment during which the signal storage sections are sequentially reset before the signal storage sections of the predetermined pixel group are reset.