Patent ID: 11871134
Assignee: TOPPAN HOLDINGS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A solid-state imaging device including a plurality of virtual pixels implemented by pixels of transfer-route controlling-scheme, each of the virtual pixels having a shape of polygon, polygons being tessellated in a pixel-array area, each of the virtual pixels comprising:
a photoelectric-conversion region;
a plurality of charge detectors to which ordinal numbers are labeled in order, configured to accumulate signal charges transferred from the photoelectric-conversion region; and
a plurality of transfer-control circuits configured to control movement of signal charges from the photoelectric-conversion region to one of the charge detectors,
wherein arrangement of polygons further comprising a plurality of intersection-shared sites, each of the intersection-shared sites is surrounded by the charge detectors, which have a same ordinal number and are disposed respectively at vertices of the polygons, such that respective vertices of the polygons are in contact with an intersection point of meshes implemented by outer shapes of the virtual pixels, the intersection point is allocated in a center of each of the intersection-shared sites, a space of each of the intersection-shared sites is provided to a cut-away space generated by cutting away each of the vertices mating toward the intersection point, the plurality of intersection-shared sites are periodically arranged, and a plurality of photodiodes, each of which includes the photoelectric-conversion region, are arranged in a remaining space of the cut-away space in the virtual pixels so that a tessellation topology of the polygons is divided and re-assigned to the cut-away space and the remaining space,
wherein, when “N” is a positive integer of three or more, N pieces of the charge detectors of a same ordinal number are arranged in each boundary between the photodiodes and the intersection-shared sites, and
each of the intersection-shared sites includes:
N switching circuits, each having first main electrode being connected to the charge detectors, respectively in order, and
a common signal-readout circuit having input terminals connected to a second main electrode of each of the switching circuits.