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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2011
Applicant:
Yoshitaka Egawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshitaka Egawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a pixel outputting a photoelectrically converted signal, an ADC circuit disposed in an edge portion of a pixel area to convert an analog signal of the pixel into a digital signal on the basis of a result of comparison between a signal level output from the pixel and a ramp wave which is a reference, and a multi-ramp-wave generating circuit generating a plurality of ramp waves with different amplitudes and combining the plurality of ramp waves to obtain the ramp wave.