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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2014
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Hirofumi Yamashita, Kawasaki, JP;

Hisayuki Taruki, Oita, JP;

Assignee:

KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Minato-ku, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3559 (2013.01); H04N 5/37452 (2013.01); H04N 5/37457 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes unit cells including a photoelectric conversion element, a signal detector and the amplifier transistor, respectively; a vertical signal line supplied with a reset signal and a pixel signal of the cell; a first interconnect connected to the signal detectors via a capacitance element; a second interconnect connected between the signal detectors and the amplifier transistors; and a switch element between the vertical signal line and the first interconnects. Unit cells arranged in a column direction is connected to a common vertical line and a common first interconnect.


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