Photoelectric conversion apparatus having clock signals of different frequencies
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorIsamu Ueno
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Abstract
Photoelectric conversion apparatus including a photoelectric conversion sensor unit having a plurality of photoelectric conversion sensors, a driving signal generating circuit, which outputs a control signal for a phtoelectric converting operation of the photoelectric conversion sensor, and a scanning circuit for outputting a control signal to output a photoelectrically converted signal from the photoelectric conversion sensor unit, where a clock signal input into the driving signal generating circuit and a clock signal input into the scanning circuit are independently provided.
Claims10
Photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising:
- photoelectric conversion sensor unit having a plurality of photoelectric conversion sensors;
- driving signal generating means for outputting a control signal for a photoelectric converting operation of said photoelectric conversion sensor unit;
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- scanning means for outputting a control signal to output a photoelectrically converted signal from said photoelectric conversion sensor unit, wherein a first clock signal inputted into said driving signal generating means and a second clock signal inputted into said scanning means are independently provided.
Photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising:
- a photoelectric conversion sensor unit having a plural number of photoelectric conversion sensors;
- driving signal generating means for outputting a control signal for a photoelectric converting operation of said photoelectric conversion sensor unit;
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- scanning means for outputting a control signal to output a photoelectrically converted signal from said photoelectric conversion sensor unit;
- wherein said apparatus further comprises means for generating one of a clock signal inputted into said driving signal generating means and a scanning clock signal inputted into said scanning means from the other clock signal and a signal providing a correlation between the clock signal and the scanning clock signal.
Photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising:
- photoelectric conversion sensor unit having plural of photoelectric conversion sensors;
- driving signal generating means for outputting a control signal for a photoelectric converting operation of photoelectric conversion sensor unit and scanning means for outputting a control signal to output a photoelectrically converted from said photoelectric conversion unit, wherein a frequency of a clock signal input into said scanning means is set arbitrarily by controlling a signal width of a trigger signal input into said driving signal generating means.
Photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising:
- (a) photoelectric conversion unit having plural of photoelectric conversion elements which photoelectrically convert light from an object;
- (b) first driving control means for controlling an operation of said photoelectric conversion unit;
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- (c) second driving control means for causing said photoelectric conversion unit to output a photoelectrically converted signal;
- wherein, said first and second driving control means are driven respectively by clock signals of different frequencies.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.