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US 5,844,234 AGranted
Amplification type solid-state imaging device having a center of the source region displaced from a pixel center
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidechika Kawazoe
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Abstract
An amplification type solid-state imaging device according to the present invention includes: a first gate region functioning as a photoelectric conversion region, a second gate region, and a source region, the first gate region surrounding the source region, and the second gate region adjoining the first gate region on a side opposite the source region, to discharge signal charge accumulated in the first gate region through the second gate region. The center of the source region is displaced from the center of a pixel.
Claims15
An amplification type solid-state imaging device, comprising:
- a first gate region functioning as a photoelectric conversion region, a second gate region, and a source region, the first gate region surrounding the source region, and the second gate region adjoining the first gate region on a side opposite the source region, to discharge signal charge accumulated in the first gate region through the second gate region;
- wherein a center of the source region is displaced from a center of a pixel.
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