IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING SYSTEM

• Main Authors: HIYAMA TAKUMI, OTA KEISUKE, KAMEYAMA HIROAKI, KUMAGAI TOMOYA, SAKURAGI KOSEI, IWATA JUNJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 09.06.2016
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging device capable of reducing noise.SOLUTION: An imaging device comprises: a first signal processing circuit (200) which is arranged in a first direction to a pixel region, and processes an output signal of pixels in a first group; a second signal processing circuit (201) which is arranged in a second direction to the pixel region, and processes an output signal of pixels in a second group; an external connection terminal (206) which is arranged in the first direction to the pixel region, and supplies a first potential to the first signal processing circuit; a second external connection terminal (207) which is arranged in the second direction to the pixel region, and supplies the first potential to the second signal processing circuit; a third external connection terminal (204) which is arranged in the first direction to the pixel region, and supplies a second potential to the pixels in the first group; and a fourth external connection terminal (205) which is arranged in the second direction to the pixel region, and supplies the second potential to a pixels in a second group.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】ノイズを低減することができる撮像装置を提供することを課題とする。【解決手段】撮像装置は、画素領域に対して第１の方向に配置され、第１のグループの画素の出力信号を信号処理する第１の信号処理回路（２００）と、画素領域に対して第２の方向に配置され、第２のグループの画素の出力信号を信号処理する第２の信号処理回路（２０１）と、画素領域に対して第１の方向に配置され、第１の信号処理回路に第１の電位を供給する第１の外部接続端子（２０６）と、画素領域に対して第２の方向に配置され、第２の信号処理回路に第１の電位を供給する第２の外部接続端子（２０７）と、画素領域に対して第１の方向に配置され、第１のグループの画素に第２の電位を供給する第３の外部接続端子（２０４）と、画素領域に対して第２の方向に配置され、第２のグループの画素に第２の電位を供給する第４の外部接続端子（２０５）を有する。【選択図】図１