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US 6,855,937 B2Granted
Image pickup apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuaki Tashiro, Noriyuki Kaifu, Osamu Yuki
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus comprising an image pickup element having pixels arranged in a two-dimensional state, each pixel having a photoelectric conversion portion, a first holding portion for holding a photoelectric conversion signal generated in the photoelectric conversion portion and a second holding portion for holding a noise signal generated in the pixel.
Claims2
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of image pickup elements, each element having pixels arranged in a two-dimensional state, each pixel having a photoelectric conversion portion, a first holding portion for holding a photoelectric conversion signal generated in the photoelectric conversion portion and a second holding portion for holding a noise signal generated in the pixel,
- wherein the pixel has a photoelectric conversion portion and an amplification element for amplifying to output a signal from the photoelectric conversion portion,
- wherein the first and second holding portions are provided in parallel with each other and are provided on an output side of the amplification element, and
- wherein the pixel has a clamp circuit having a capacitor and a switch for supplying a predetermined potential to one terminal of the capacitor, between the amplification element and the first and second holding portions.
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An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of image pickup elements, each element having pixels arranged in a two-dimensional state, each pixel having a photoelectric conversion portion, a first holding portion for holding a photoelectric conversion signal generated in the photoelectric conversion portion and a second holding portion for holding a noise signal generated in the pixel,
- wherein the pixel has a photoelectric conversion portion and an amplification element for amplifying to output a signal from the photoelectric conversion portion,
- wherein the first and second holding portions are provided in parallel with each other and are provided on an output side of the amplification element, and
- wherein the pixel has a clamp circuit having a capacitor and a switch for supplying a predetermined potential to one terminal of the capacitor, between the amplification element and the first and second holding portions;
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- a driving circuit having a mode for collectively transferring a photoelectric conversion signal generated in the photoelectric conversion signal generated in the photoelectric conversion portion of each of the pixels arranged in a two-dimensional state to the first holding portion and a mode for clamping the noise signal, which is obtained by resetting an input portion of the amplification element, by the clamp circuit and accumulating photocharges in the photoelectric conversion portion during a period in which signals held in the first and second holding portions of each of the pixels arranged in a two-dimensional state are sequentially read out.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.