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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2013
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Nana Akahane, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes capacitors in a number greater than a unit read-out number that are connected to a plurality of pixels via transfer lines, and that performs a step of transferring to and retaining in separate capacitors from each other a noise signal output from the pixels in a number corresponding to the unit read-out number; and a step of repeating, for as many times as the unit read-out number, by switching the pixels and the capacitors, an operation in which a signal-plus-noise signal output from one of the pixels is transferred to and retained in one of the other capacitors, and the noise signal and the signal-plus-noise signal that have been output from the same pixel and retained in separate capacitors are subsequently output at the same time.