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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2012
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Haruhisa Naganokawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Shizunori Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 5/372 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H01L 27/148 (2006.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/148 (2013.01); H01L 27/14609 (2013.01); H04N 5/335 (2013.01); H04N 5/3698 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solid-state image capture device includes unit pixels including transfer gates that transfer charges to diffusion layers, the charges being obtained by photoelectric conversion performed by photoelectric converting sections; signal lines to which signals output from the unit pixels are read out: current sources connected to the signal lines; and a driver that electrically cuts off connections between the unit pixels and the signal lines and the signal lines and the current sources in a transfer period of the transfer gates.