Patent ID: 8581199
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: G01J,H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid state imaging device comprising: an infrared detection pixel configured to change an output potential by receiving infrared light; a non-sensitive pixel, an amount of change in an output potential when the non-sensitive pixel receives infrared light being smaller than an amount of change in an output potential when the infrared detection pixel receives the infrared light; a row select line configured to apply a drive potential to both the infrared detection pixel and the non-sensitive pixel; and a differential amplifier including one input terminal to which an output potential of the infrared detection pixel is inputted and another input terminal to which an output potential of the non-sensitive pixel is inputted and configured to output an electric potential corresponding to a difference between an electric potential inputted to the one input terminal and an electric potential inputted to the other input terminal, the infrared detection pixel, the non-sensitive pixel, and the differential amplifier being formed in a same semiconductor substrate.