Solid-state image sensing apparatus and image sensing system

A solid-state image sensing apparatus having plural unit pixels, arranged in an array, for converting incident light into signal charges and outputting the signal charges as electric signals, wherein each unit pixel having plural photoelectric converters, overlay-formed in a depthwise direction, for converting the incident light into the electric signals, comprising:

• plural holding units that hold signals from plural pixels;
• and
• a common output unit, provided in common to said plural holding units, that sequentially outputs the signals from said plural holding units,
• wherein said plural holding units respectively have plural holding capacitors, and said common output unit has plural common output lines to output the signals from said plural holding capacitors in parallel,
• and wherein said solid-state image sensing apparatus has operation processor adapted to receive signals from said plural common output lines in parallel and performing operation processing.

A solid-state image sensing apparatus having plural unit pixels, arranged in an array, for converting incident light into signal charges and outputting the signal charges as electric signals, wherein each unit pixel having plural photoelectric converters, overlay-formed in a depthwise direction, for converting the incident light into the electric signals, comprising:

• a gain controller adapted to perform gain control on output signals from said plural photoelectric converters to obtain equal charge conversion coefficients;
• an operation processor adapted to perform predetermined operation processing on said output signals gain-controlled by said gain controller;
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• an output unit adapted to output the result of processing by said operation processor.

A solid-state image sensing apparatus having plural unit pixels, arranged in an array, for converting incident light into signal charges and outputting the signal charges as electric signals, wherein each unit pixel having plural photoelectric converters, overlay-formed in a depthwise direction, for converting the incident light into the electric signals, comprising:

• a differential processing unit adapted to perform differential processing on output signals corresponding to signal charges in said plural photoelectric converters and output signals corresponding to a reset status, and outputting signals obtained by the differential processing;
• a gain controller adapted to perform gain control on difference output signals regarding said plural photoelectric converters, outputted from said differential processing unit, to obtain equal charge conversion coefficients;
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• an operation processor adapted to perform predetermined operation processing on said difference output signals gain-controlled by said gain controller and outputting the result of said operation processing.