JP4928112B2 - 横線ノイズを改善可能なイメージセンサ - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
- H04N25/60—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise
- H04N25/67—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise applied to fixed-pattern noise, e.g. non-uniformity of response
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- H04N25/677—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise applied to fixed-pattern noise, e.g. non-uniformity of response for non-uniformity detection or correction for reducing the column or line fixed pattern noise
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- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
- H04N25/60—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise
- H04N25/62—Detection or reduction of noise due to excess charges produced by the exposure, e.g. smear, blooming, ghost image, crosstalk or leakage between pixels
- H04N25/621—Detection or reduction of noise due to excess charges produced by the exposure, e.g. smear, blooming, ghost image, crosstalk or leakage between pixels for the control of blooming
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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- H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
- H04N25/60—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise
- H04N25/616—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise involving a correlated sampling function, e.g. correlated double sampling [CDS] or triple sampling
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
- H04N25/60—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise
- H04N25/62—Detection or reduction of noise due to excess charges produced by the exposure, e.g. smear, blooming, ghost image, crosstalk or leakage between pixels
- H04N25/628—Detection or reduction of noise due to excess charges produced by the exposure, e.g. smear, blooming, ghost image, crosstalk or leakage between pixels for reducing horizontal stripes caused by saturated regions of CMOS sensors
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Description
201 カラムアナログバス
202 ユニットピクセル
FD フローティング拡散ノード
TX トランスファトランジスタ
RX リセットトランジスタ
DX ドライブトランジスタ
SX セレクトトランジスタ
ML ロードトランジスタ
MF アクティブトランジスタ
Claims (4)
- ロー及びカラムに配列された複数のユニットピクセルを含むピクセルアレイと、
前記ピクセルアレイのローまたはカラム毎に設けられ、前記ピクセルアレイの出力信号を伝達するアナログバスと、
前記アナログバスによって伝達される前記ピクセルアレイの出力信号を読み出す読み出し回路と、
を備え、
前記読み出し回路は、
ドレイン端が、対応する前記アナログバスに接続され、ソース端が所定の供給電圧端にそれぞれ接続される複数の第1トランジスタと、
ゲート端及びドレイン端が共に前記複数の第1トランジスタのゲート端に接続され、ソース端が前記供給電圧端に接続される第2トランジスタと、
を備え、
前記第2トランジスタのサイズは、前記複数の第1トランジスタのそれぞれのサイズよりも大きく、前記第2トランジスタを流れる電流量は、前記第1トランジスタを流れる電流量よりも大きいことを特徴するイメージセンサ。 - 前記複数の第1トランジスタのそれぞれが、前記カラム毎に設けられ、前記第2トランジスタが、前記複数の第1トランジスタと共に電流ミラー回路を構成することを特徴とする、請求項1に記載のイメージセンサ。
- 前記複数の第1トランジスタ及び前記第2トランジスタが、それぞれNMOSトランジスタであることを特徴とする、請求項1に記載のイメージセンサ。
- 前記供給電圧端が、接地電圧供給端であることを特徴とする、請求項1に記載のイメージセンサ。
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| US (2) | US7518647B2 (ja) |
| JP (1) | JP4928112B2 (ja) |
| KR (1) | KR100648802B1 (ja) |
| CN (1) | CN100391241C (ja) |
| TW (1) | TWI286439B (ja) |
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