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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Iwaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/376 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H03M 1/56 (2006.01); H03M 1/08 (2006.01); H03M 1/36 (2006.01); H03M 7/16 (2006.01); H03M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3765 (2013.01); H03M 1/002 (2013.01); H03M 1/0872 (2013.01); H03M 1/36 (2013.01); H03M 7/16 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H03M 1/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device having an analog-digital converter, and an analog-digital conversion method are described herein. An example of a solid-state imaging device includes a column processing section that includes a low-level bit latching section. The low-level bit latching section receives a comparator output from a comparator and a count output from a counter, and the low-level bit latching section latches a count value.