Solid-state imaging device, its driving method, and camera...

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2006-06-27

2006-06-27

Ometz, David (Department: 2622)

Television

Camera, system and detail

Solid-state image sensor

C257S291000, C257S215000, C250S208100, C348S296000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07068315

ABSTRACT:
In an X-Y address imaging device having an electronic shutter function, a vertical driving section includes a vertical scanning circuit and a vertical shutter scanning circuit. A horizontal driving section includes a horizontal scanning circuit and a horizontal shutter scanning circuit. The horizontal shutter scanning circuit selects, on a pixel basis, a pixel for which to perform a shutter operation from the pixels of a read pixel row selected by the vertical scanning section. After a lapse of an exposure time that is an integral multiple of a one-pixel selection period, a signal of the selected pixel is read out by scanning by the horizontal scanning circuit. This realizes an electronic shutter that enables not only an exposure time that is an integral multiple of 1H but also an exposure time having a time shorter than 1H as a unit.

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