US 11,700,468 B2
Image capturing apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body
Koichiro Iwata, Kanagawa (JP); Yu Arishima, Kanagawa (JP); and Masaki Sato, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/531,623.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-201485 (JP), filed on Dec. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0182571 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 25/77 (2023.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); H04N 25/704 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 25/77 (2023.01) [G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); H04N 25/704 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising:
a plurality of pixels;
a signal line connected to the plurality of pixels; and
a limiter circuit configured to limit an amplitude of a signal at the signal line,
wherein a first pixel in the plurality of pixels sequentially outputs a noise signal, a focus detection signal, and an image capturing signal to the signal line, and a second pixel in the plurality of pixels sequentially outputs a noise signal and an image capturing signal to the signal line, and
wherein a potential of the signal at the signal line is set to a potential by the limiter circuit during a period after the second pixel outputs the noise signal and before the second pixel outputs the image capturing signal.