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US 9,071,782 B2Granted
Physical information acquisition apparatus for driving physical information acquisition sensor control lines at multiple dividing points
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMasafumi Okano, Hiroki Ui
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Abstract
A solid-state image sensor with one or more control lines driven at arbitrary dividing points along the control line.
Claims12
A physical information acquisition apparatus comprising:
- a semiconductor device including a plurality of pixel elements arranged in a particular order, each pixel element having a signal generation part for outputting at least one signal indicating a detected change in a physical quantity;
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- a drive control unit that drives a control line at a point located on the control line such that a maximum value of a product of (a) load capacitance at an arbitrary driving point on the control line and (b) line resistance between the arbitrary driving point and a driver unit that is connected to the point is substantially a local minimum, wherein the point is at a position along the driving control line between the ends of the control line and the control line is connected to at least one of the plurality of pixel elements.
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