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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2012
Applicants:
Shigehiro Miyatake, Tokyo, JP;
Tomokazu Kakumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shigehiro Miyatake, Tokyo, JP;
Tomokazu Kakumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Knoica Minolta Holdings, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
By feeding an appropriate voltage as a signal φTX to a transfer gate TG, a MOS transistor Tis operated in a threshold region. A potential linearly or natural logarithmically converted by a buried photodiode PD is transferred to an N-type floating diffusion layer FD so as to be fed out, as an image signal, via MOS transistors Tand T