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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Hiromichi Oshikubo, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Adachi, Ibaraki, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To reduce the number of capacitative elements on a chip to decrease a surface ratio of a peripheral circuit section including capacitative elements to a pixel array section, while maintaining noise resistance of signals high. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a plurality of unit pixels; a plurality of transfer lines; and a plurality of switches, wherein each of the unit pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element and a charge voltage conversion element, and outputs respectively a noise voltage generated when the charge voltage conversion element is reset and a signal-noise sum voltage obtained by adding to the noise voltage a signal voltage generated by photoelectric conversion to the other transfer lines that are connected via the switches to the transfer line to which the pixel group including the unit pixel belongs.