Imaging device
AssigneeSony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
InventorJyunichirou Kusuda
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Abstract
An imaging device of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of pixel circuits that each generates a pixel signal including a pixel voltage corresponding to an amount of received light, and performs AD conversion by comparing the pixel signal with a reference signal; and a reference signal generator including a signal generation circuit and a voltage follower circuit, the signal generation circuit that generates a voltage signal having a ramp waveform, and the voltage follower circuit that performs a voltage follower operation on the basis of the voltage signal to generate the reference signal, and supplies the reference signal to the plurality of pixel circuits.
Claims9
An imaging device comprising:
- a plurality of pixel circuits that each generates a pixel signal including a pixel voltage corresponding to an amount of received light, and performs AD conversion by comparing the pixel signal with a reference signal;
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- a reference signal generator including a signal generation circuit and a voltage follower circuit, the signal generation circuit that generates a voltage signal having a ramp waveform, and the voltage follower circuit that performs a voltage follower operation on a basis of the voltage signal to generate the reference signal, and supplies the reference signal to the plurality of pixel circuits.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.