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

Claim 16:
17. The imaging system of claim 8, wherein each of the virtual pixels further comprises a low-resistivity region operating as a charge-exhaust element for exhausting charges other than the signal charges, in addition to low-resistivity regions operating as the charge detectors, respectively,
each of low-resistivity regions including the low-resistivity region operating as the charge-exhaust element and the low-resistivity regions, operating as the charge detectors, is labeled with increasing ordinal numbers, such that a number corresponding to increased piece of the charge-exhaust element is added to already labeled ordinal numbers to the charge detectors,
wherein the increasing ordinal numbers are arranged to surround a periphery of the intersection-shared sites, in each of boundaries between the photodiodes and the intersection-shared sites, so that each of the low-resistivity regions can be arranged on each of the boundaries, and
the switching circuits are prepared with numbers corresponding to the increasing ordinal numbers so that each of the switching circuits are connectable to the low-resistivity regions, respectively.