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Patent No.:

US 8537252 B1

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Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2010
Applicant:

Daisuke Yoshioka, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Daisuke Yoshioka, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit in which pixels that perform photoelectric conversion are arranged in an optical black region and a valid pixel region; a readout processing unit that applies, to a readout signal of the pixel unit, readout processing corresponding to a reference signal subjected to clamp processing; and a clamp processing unit that clamps, referring to a readout signal level in the optical black region, a reference signal in the valid pixel region with an acquired clamp value, which is a value with which the signal level is reduced to zero. The clamp processing unit acquires, when information concerning readout is changed, a clamp value predicted from the clamp value before the change and a ratio of charge accumulation times before and after the change, and the readout processing unit performs first signal readout processing after the change with a reference signal clamped by the predicted clamp value.


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Yoshioka, Daisuke. (2013). Solid-state imaging device and camera system which performs clamp processing (U.S. Patent No. 8537252). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8537252

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