Image sensor and image capture apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMineo Uchida
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Abstract
An image sensor comprises a pixel array formed by arraying pixels in a column direction and a row direction; a column common readout unit provided for each pixel column in the pixel array; at least three readout channels which sequentially read signals from the column common readout units, respectively; and a readout channel selection unit which selects readout channels so that the signal is output from each of the column common readout units to a corresponding one of the at least three readout channels, wherein the readout channel selection unit selects readout channels, to which the signals are output from the column common readout units, in a predetermined pattern that varies in each individual row of the pixel array.
Claims6
An image sensor comprising:
- a pixel array formed by arraying pixels in a column direction and a row direction;
- a column common readout unit provided for each pixel column in the pixel array;
- at least three readout channels which sequentially read signals from said column common readout units, respectively;
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- a readout channel selection unit which selects readout channels so that the signal is output from each of said column common readout units to a corresponding one of said at least three readout channels,
- wherein said readout channel selection unit selects readout channels, to which the signals are output from said column common readout units, in a predetermined pattern that varies in each individual row of said pixel array.
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