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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2010
Applicant:
Norihiro Nikai, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Norihiro Nikai, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arranged; a comparison unit comparing a reference signal with a signal acquired by the photoelectric conversion element of the pixel unit; a reference signal generating unit generating the reference signal; a counting unit counting an amount of time when the relative magnitude of the pixel signal and the reference signal is inverted by the comparison unit; and an offset setting unit setting an offset in the reference signal generated by the reference signal generating unit.