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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2013
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohisa Kinugasa, Yokohama, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This application relates to a photoelectric conversion apparatus which performs photoelectric conversion on incident light, a method for driving a photoelectric conversion apparatus, and an imaging system having a photoelectric conversion apparatus. The potential of one main node is prevented from approaching a predetermined potential which controls the voltage between a control node of a switch Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) transistor and the one main node of the switch MOS transistor within a threshold voltage in a period when the predetermined potential is given and a signal based on the charge in the photoelectric converting unit is given to the one input node.