Image sensor and driving method for the same

Details Image sensor and driving method for the same Image sensor and driving method for the same

1997-05-16

1998-05-05

Faile, Andrew

Television

Camera, system and detail

Swing driven

348311, H04N 5225

Patent

active

057482322

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an image sensor of the charge transfer type which employs solid-state image pickup devices and a method of driving the image sensor. Gate electrodes to which pulse voltages can be applied and which preferably are transparent are disposed at a period distance shorter than the spatial arrangement period distance of pixels on light receiving faces of light receiving elements formed from photodiodes or like elements. Upon imaging using the image sensor, the combination of voltage to be applied to the gate electrodes is varied to vary sampling points of the light receiving faces in accordance with an environment or an object of use of the image sensor so that a fixed resolution and a fixed sensitivity can be obtained.

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