Image pickup device, its control method, and camera

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PATENT NO 8883526
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12960701

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An image pickup device, wherein a part of the carriers overflowing from the photoelectric conversion unit for a period of photoelectrically generating and accumulating the carriers may be flowed into the floating diffusion region, and a pixel signal generating unit generating a pixel signal according to the carriers stored in the photoelectric conversion unit and the carriers having overflowed into the floating diffusion region, is provided. The expansion of a dynamic range and the improvement of an image quality can be provided by controlling a ratio of the carriers flowing into the floating diffusion region to the carriers overflowing from such a photoelectric conversion unit at high accuracy.

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CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAOHTA-KU TOKYO 146-8501

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Koizumi, Toru Yokohama, JP 203 5642
Okita, Akira Yamato, JP 127 3244
Sakurai, Katsuhito Machida, JP 97 2595
Ueno, Isamu Hadano, JP 64 1975

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