Patent ID: 7608832
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image detection device comprising: an image detector equipped with a detection section having a charge generation section that receives irradiation of electromagnetic waves for recording and generates charges, a storage capacitor in which two electrodes are disposed so as to oppose one another and which accumulates charges generated at the charge generation section and at which, in accordance with an accumulated charge amount and with a potential of one electrode as a reference, a potential of another electrode varies, and a TFT switching element for reading out charges accumulated in the storage capacitor; a power source section connected so as to be able to apply voltage to the one electrode; and a control section that controls voltage applied from the power source section to the one electrode so as to promote the leak current through the switching element, for a predetermined time period before the charges accumulated in the storage capacitor are read out from the image detector.