Solid-state imaging device
AssigneeHamamatsu Photonics K.K.
InventorsHisanori Suzuki, Yasuhito Yoneta, Shin-ichiro Takagi, Kentaro Maeta, Masaharu Muramatsu
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Abstract
A solid-state imaging device 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention is a charge multiplying solid-state imaging device, and includes an imaging area 10 that generates a charge according to the amount of incident light, an output register unit 20 that receives the charge from the imaging area 10, a multiplication register unit 40 that multiplies the charge from the output register 20, and at least one charge dispersion means 71 that disperses the charge input to the multiplication register unit 40 in a width direction perpendicular to a transfer direction.
Claims5
A charge multiplying solid-state imaging device comprising:
- an imaging area that generates a charge according to the amount of incident light;
- an output register unit that receives the charge from the imaging area;
- a multiplication register unit that multiplies the charge from the output register;
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- at least one charge dispersion means that disperses the charge input to the multiplication register unit in a width direction perpendicular to a transfer direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.