Solid state imaging device, method of driving solid state imaging device, and image pickup apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKazuhide Yokota, Hisashi Kurebayashi
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Abstract
A solid state imaging device includes: a pixel array section in which pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are two dimensionally arranged; a vertical selector that sequentially applies selective scanning to respective rows of the pixel array section; and a controller that discharges, when a mode for reading out only pixel signals of respective rows in a given row range in the pixel array section is set by the vertical selector, charges generated in the photoelectric conversion elements in respective pixels of rows outside the row range to a pixel power supply.
Claims6
A solid state imaging device comprising:
- a pixel array section in which pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are two dimensionally arranged;
- a vertical selector that sequentially applies selective scanning to respective rows of the pixel array section;
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- a controller that discharges, when a mode for reading out only pixel signals of respective rows in a given row range in the pixel array section is set by the vertical selector, charges generated in the photoelectric conversion elements in respective pixels of rows outside the row range to a pixel power supply.
A method of driving a solid state imaging device including a pixel array section in which pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are two dimensionally arranged, wherein, when a mode for reading out only pixel signals of respective rows in a given row range in the pixel array section is set, charges generated in the photoelectric conversion elements in respective pixels of rows outside the row range are discharged to a pixel power supply.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a solid state imaging device that includes a pixel array section in which pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are two dimensionally arranged;
- an optical system that focuses image light from a subject on an imaging surface of the solid state imaging device;
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- a mode setting unit that sets a mode for reading out only pixel signals of respective rows in a given row range in the pixel array section,
- wherein the solid state imaging device discharges, when the mode is set by the mode setting unit, charges generated in the photoelectric conversion elements in respective pixels of rows outside the given row range to a pixel power supply.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.