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US 8,558,930 B2Granted
Solid-state image sensing device and image pickup apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorSatoshi Masuda
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Abstract
Each pixel circuit of one type includes a transfer transistor and the like and is individually provided for and arranged in a corresponding pixel. Each pixel circuit of another type includes an amplifying transistor, a floating diffusion, a reset transistor and the like and is commonly provided for pixels of respective rows and arranged outside pixel rows.
Claims8
A solid-state image sensing device having a plurality of pixel rows and columns, each pixel row including a plurality of linearly arranged pixels, comprising:
- first pixel circuits individually provided for respective pixels and located in each of the respective pixels, the first pixel circuits each comprising a photoelectric conversion element for receiving light from an object and for accumulating signal charges, and a transfer transistor for transferring the signal charges accumulated by the photoelectric conversion element;
- a floating diffusion for accumulating the signal charges transferred from the transfer transistor;
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- second pixel circuits, each second pixel circuit being electrically connected to all of the first pixel circuits in only a single column of said first pixel circuits, the second pixel circuits comprising an amplifying transistor for amplifying the signal charges accumulated in the floating diffusion, the second pixel circuits being located outside, and not between or among, the pixel rows.
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