Patent ID: 11953541
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 9:
10. A semiconductor apparatus comprising: a semiconductor device that performs signal processing; a driving control unit that controls drive of the semiconductor device; and a time obtaining unit that obtains time information that represents an elapsed time of an operation of the semiconductor device,
wherein in a case where the time information represents a first length, the driving control unit drives the semiconductor device in a first condition,
in a case where the time information represents a second length longer than the first length, the driving control unit drives the semiconductor device in a second condition in which throughput of the signal processing is lower than that in a case where the semiconductor device is driven in the first condition, and the remaining lifetime of the semiconductor device is longer than that in the case where the semiconductor device is driven in the first condition,
wherein the semiconductor device includes pixels that are arranged in rows and in columns and that include respective photoelectric converters,
wherein the semiconductor device includes a scanning circuit that performs vertical scanning in which the pixels in the rows are scanned in a unit of the rows,
the first condition is a condition in which the vertical scanning is performed a first number of times per unit time, and
the second condition is a condition in which the vertical scanning is performed a second number of times smaller than the first number of times per unit time.