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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2013
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichiro Minami, Kanagawa, JP;
Michiru Senda, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsutomu Harada, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayuki Katakura, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup unit includes: a signal generating section generating a pulse signal that makes transitions between a first voltage and a low-noise second voltage; a voltage holding section holding a difference between a voltage of the pulse signal and a voltage of an output node; a voltage setting section that generates a pixel selection signal through setting the voltage of the output node to a third voltage in correspondence to a transition of the pulse signal from the second voltage to the first voltage, and outputs the pixel selection signal from the output node; and an image pickup section driven by the pixel selection signal.