Patent ID: 11961864
Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. The imaging device according to claim 2, wherein the sensor pixel includes:
a photoelectric conversion element;
a transfer transistor that is electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion element; and
a floating diffusion that temporarily holds an electric charge outputted from the photoelectric conversion element via the transfer transistor,
wherein the reading circuit includes:
a reset transistor that resets a potential of the floating diffusion to a predetermined potential;
the amplification transistor that generates, as the pixel signal, a signal having a voltage according to a level of the electric charge held in the floating diffusion; and
a selection transistor that controls a timing of outputting the pixel signal from the amplification transistor,

wherein the first transistor includes the amplification transistor, and
wherein the second transistors include the reset transistor and the selection transistor.