Television – Camera – system and detail – Solid-state image sensor
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-14
2011-06-14
Villecco, John M (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Solid-state image sensor
C348S297000, C348S308000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07961238
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for driving a solid-state image pickup device including a pixel array unit including unit pixels. Each unit pixel includes a photoelectric converter, column signal lines and a number of analog-digital converting units. The unit pixels are selectively controlled in units of rows. Analog signals output from the unit pixels in a row selected by the selective control though the column signal lines are converted to digital signals via the analog-digital converting units. The digital signals are added among a number of unit pixels via the analog-digital converting units. The added digital signals from the analog-digital converting units are read. Each unit pixel in the pixel array unit is selectively controlled in units of arbitrary rows, the analog-distal converting units being operable to performing the converting in a (a) normal-frame-rate mode and a (b) high-frame-rate mode in response to control signals.
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Fukushima Noriyuki
Muramatsu Yoshinori
Nitta Yoshikazu
Yasui Yukihiko
SNR Denton US LLP
Sony Corporation
Villecco John M
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