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US 9,871,983 B2Granted
Solid-state imaging apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsKeisuke Yazawa, Motonori Ishii, Yutaka Hirose, Yoshihisa Kato, Yoshiyuki Matsunaga
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Abstract
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel including: a photoelectric converter that generates a signal charge corresponding to incident light; a charge storage section that is connected to the photoelectric converter and accumulates signal charge; a reset transistor; an amplifying transistor; and a cutoff transistor, wherein the amplifying transistor and the cutoff transistor form a negative feedback amplifying circuit.
Claims9
An imaging device comprising,
- a pixel including:
- a photoelectric converter that generates signal charge corresponding to incident light;
- a charge storage section that is electrically connected to the photoelectric converter and accumulates signal charge;
- a reset transistor in which one of a source and a drain is electrically connected to the charge storage section;
- and
- an amplifying transistor having a gate which is electrically connected to the charge storage section, wherein:
- in a first period when a voltage of the charge storage section is read out,
- one of a source and a drain of the amplifier transistor is electrically connected to a first power supply voltage,
- the other of the source and the drain of the amplifier transistor is electrically connected to a signal output section that outputs a signal transferred from the pixel, and
- a first voltage that causes the reset transistor to be nonconductive state is applied to a gate of the reset transistor, and
- in a second period when a voltage of the charge storage section is reset,
- the one of the source and the drain of the amplifier transistor is electrically connected to a reference voltage,
- the other of the source and the drain of the amplifier transistor is electrically connected to a second power supply voltage via a load, and
- a second voltage between the first voltage and a third voltage is applied to the gate of the reset transistor, the third voltage being a voltage that causes the reset transistor to be conductive state.
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