SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CIRCUIT, AND IMAGING DATA OUTPUT METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state imaging apparatus and an imaging circuit eliminating need for a cooling apparatus, being downsized and reducing the power consumption and the cost. SOLUTION: The solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a plurality of detection pixels 1 for carrying out thermoelectric conversion and photoelectric conversion and arranged two-dimensionally on a semiconductor substrate; supports 2, 3 for supporting the detection pixels 1 apart from the semiconductor substrate; a vertical shift register 4 and a buffer circuit 5 for selecting the detection pixels 1 in units of rows; a horizontal shift register 6, a column selection transistor 7 and a gate modulation amplifier circuit 8 for selecting the detection pixels 1 in units of columns; and a function selection section 11 for selecting the thermoelectric conversion or the photoelectric conversion is applied to the detection pixels 1. Since an infrared ray image or a visual light image is acquired by changing an application way of a bias to a conversion section 20 through the selection of wiring to the same conversion section, it is not required to separately provide an infrared ray sensor and a visual light sensor to each pixel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI