Photoelectric conversion type information processing device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTadaji Fukuda, Takashi Nakagiri
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Abstract
A photoelectric conversion type information processing device constructed with a photoelectric conversion section including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in an array or in a matrix form, a common electrode for the photoelectric conversion elements, independent electrodes for each of the photoelectric conversion elements, and a photoelectric conversion layer interposed between the common electrode and the independent electrode; and a time-sequential signal conversion section for introducing thereinto in parallel, in response to a light signal input, a plurality of signal outputs from the photoelectric conversion elements and rendering the signal as introduced to be a time-sequential output.
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A photoelectric conversion type information processing device, comprising:
- a single dimensional, elongated photoelectric conversion section having n numbers of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in an array on a substrate, each of said photoelectric conversion elements having a thin-film vapor-deposited photoelectric conversion layer, one electrode provided independently for each of said photoelectric conversion elements and another electrode provided common to said photoelectric conversion elements;
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- a time-sequential signal conversion section which, in response to a light signal input, introduces thereinto in parallel k numbers of signal outputs from said photoelectric conversion section, and which renders at least a part of said k numbers of signal outputs time-sequential, where k.ltoreq.n.
A photoelectric conversion type information processing device comprising:
- a two-dimensional elongated photoelectric conversion section having a group of m x n numbers of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix form consisting of m rows and n columns, each of said photoelectric conversion elements having a thin-film vapor-deposited photoelectric conversion layer one electrode common to the rows and another electrode common to the columns of said photoelectric conversion section;
- a row-selection signal generating section which generates a signal output as the result of selection of any row in said two dimensional photoelectric conversion section;
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- a time-sequential signal conversion section which, in response to a light signal input, introduces thereinto in parallel k numbers of signal outputs from each of said n numbers of photoelectric conversion elements constituting the rows to be selected, and which renders at least a part of these k numbers of signals time-sequential, where k.ltoreq.n.
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