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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:
Jan. 24, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2013
Applicant:

Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Motonori Ishii, Osaka, JP;

Shigetaka Kasuga, Osaka, JP;

Mitsuyoshi Mori, Kyoto, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/363 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/363 (2013.01); H01L 27/1461 (2013.01); H01L 27/1464 (2013.01); H04N 5/37457 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes: pixels arrayed two-dimensionally; pixel common circuits arrayed in a matrix, each shared by adjacent pixels of a certain number among the pixels; column common circuits, each provided for one of columns of the pixel common circuits, and shared by pixel common circuits belonging to a same column; column signal lines each provided for one of the columns of the pixel common circuits; and reset signal lines each provided for one of the columns of the pixel common circuits, in which an electric signal from each of the pixels is detected by a corresponding one of the pixel common circuits and read by a corresponding one of the column common circuits, and the electric signal detected by the corresponding one of the pixel common circuits is reset by a feedback path including one column signal line, one column common circuit, and one reset signal lines.


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