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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:
Oct. 18, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Jun Aoki, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H04N 5/372 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/238 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3745 (2013.01); H01L 27/14603 (2013.01); H01L 27/14634 (2013.01); H04N 5/238 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/23296 (2013.01); H04N 5/3698 (2013.01); H04N 5/372 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solid-state image capture device includes a plurality of pixels and a first substrate and a second substrate in which circuit elements constitutes the pixels are disposed and which are electrically connected by a connection unit. The pixels includes: photoelectric conversion elements disposed in the first substrate and generating signals corresponding to amounts of incident light; sample hold capacities disposed in the second substrate and holding output signals corresponding to the signals generated by the photoelectric conversion elements; and a clamp capacitor disposed in the second substrate, shared by the plurality of pixels, and clamping voltages of the output signals held in the plurality of sample hold capacities. The sample hold capacities and the clamp capacitor are capacities having a structure in which two sheets of metal electrodes having a quadrangular flat plate shape are opposite to each other.


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