IP Library Patent Application 11553514
Patent Application
App. No. 11/553,514

ANALOG SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT FOR CCD CAMERA, AND ANALOG SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD

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App. No.
11/553,514
Abstract

A switched capacitor amplification circuit configuring an analog signal processing circuit newly includes switch circuits in a second switch circuit section, and a bias circuit in a bias circuit section. Switch circuits in a first switch circuit section are controlled by a pulse wave, are fixedly switched off during a pre-blanking period (PB period), and are switched on/off during a normal period other than the PB period such that the switched capacitor amplification circuit performs a sampling operation. The switch circuits in the second switch circuit section are controlled by a pulse wave, are switched on/off during the PB period such that the switched capacitor amplification circuit performs a sampling operation, and are fixedly switched off during the normal period other than the PB period.

Claims (10)

1 . An analog signal processing circuit comprising a switched capacitor amplification circuit performing a sampling operation and an amplifying operation on a wave form of a received input signal,

wherein the switched capacitor amplification circuit includes:

a first switch circuit section switched on/off during a normal period such that the switched capacitor amplification circuit performs the sampling operation and fixedly switched off during a pre-blanking period between normal periods; and

a second switch circuit section arranged subsequent to the first switch circuit section from an input side, fixedly switched off during the normal period, and switched on/off during the pre-blanking period such that the switched capacitor amplification circuit performs the sampling operation.

2 . The analog signal processing circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the second switch circuit section includes a bias circuit section.

3 . The analog signal processing circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the analog signal processing circuit further comprises a black level sample/hold circuit sampling/holding a reference level of the input signal.

4 . The analog signal processing circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the analog signal processing circuit further comprises an input DC level circuit.

5 . An analog signal processing method by an analog signal processing circuit including a first switch circuit section and a second switch circuit section arranged sequentially from an input side and performing a sampling operation and an amplifying operation on a wave form of a received input signal, the method comprising:

switching on/off the first switch circuit section while fixedly switching off the second switch circuit section during a normal period such that the switched capacitor amplification circuit performs the sampling operation and the amplifying operation; and

switching on/off the second switch circuit section while fixedly switching off the first switch circuit section during a pre-blanking period between normal periods such that the switched capacitor amplification circuit performs the sampling operation and the amplifying operation.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 20, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021897/0534 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 13, 2007
From: YAMAGUCHI, KOUJI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 019002/0234 →