Driving method of solid-state imaging apparatus, solid-state imaging apparatus, and imaging system
US8305473B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 29, 2009 |
| Grant date | Nov 6, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 16, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N25/78
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In an amplifying type MOS sensor having a 3-transistor construction, when a frame rate is raised, an accumulation time of a frame just after the switching of a drive mode becomes short. When a gain correction is made to compensate a lack of accumulation time, a deterioration in picture quality is caused. A read out scan and a reset scan are executed in parallel in the frame before the switching of the drive mode, thereby preventing that a time period for resetting a pixel is overlapped with a time period for holding a pixel signal into a holding unit.
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