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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2008
Applicants:
Tsutomu Honda, Hachioji, JP;
Kazuhiro Haneda, Akiruno, JP;
Satoshi Tanaka, Tokorozawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Imaging Corp., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A drive unit for an image sensor of the present invention comprises, for horizontal scanning, a drive section performing addition and readout of a first FD (floating diffusion) shared by two pixels of the same color that are adjacent in a diagonal direction by simultaneously transferring electrical charge of the two pixels of the same color, and for a second FD shared by two pixels of different colors that are adjacent in a diagonal direction, transferring and reading out electrical charge of a pixel of one color among the two pixels of different colors.