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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKatsuro Takenaka, Toshio Kameshima, Tomoyuki Yagi, Sho Sato, Atsushi Iwashita, Eriko Sugawara
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An imaging apparatus comprises: a detecting unit 101 having a plurality of pixels 201 arranged in a matrix, each including a conversion element and a switch element for outputting a photoelectric conversion signal; a drive circuit unit 102 controlling the switching element such that the switching elements at least in one row are in the conducting state, and the switching elements in non-continuous rows are simultaneously in the conducting state; a signal processing unit 106 generating a detection signal 115 by adding or averaging the electrical signals output by the switch elements in non-continuous rows; a comparing unit 501 comparing the detection signal 115 with a threshold to determine whether the irradiation of radiation or light is started or ended; and a control circuit unit 108 controlling the drive circuit unit 102 or the signal processing unit 106 based on the determination of the comparing unit 501.
An imaging apparatus comprising:
A driving method of an imaging apparatus including a detecting unit provided with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including a conversion element for converting radiation or light into an electric charge and a switching element for outputting an electric signal based on the electric charge;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.