Abstract: To reduce the number of wirings through which transmission and reception are made between chips. The solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is arranged, each of the plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion unit, and the first substrate includes a first wiring through which an imaging pixel signal is transmitted, the imaging pixel signal being read from two or more of the pixels arranged in a first direction in the pixel array unit, a second wiring through which a reset voltage for initializing the first wiring is supplied, and a first switching circuit configured to switch whether or not to short-circuit the first wiring and the second wiring.

Abstract: A selection pixel where signal readout is performed and a reference pixel where signal readout is not performed are arranged in a pixel array section, and an amplification transistor of the selection pixel and an amplification transistor of the reference pixel each source electrode of which is connected in common to a common wire are connected with a constant current source via the common wire to form a differential amplification circuit. Then, a bypass control section which selectively establishes connection between the constant current source and a differential output node of the differential amplification circuit and limits a voltage of the differential output node to a predetermined voltage by causing a bypass current to flow between the constant current source and the differential output node, and a current path for bypass current that supplies the bypass current to the constant current source through the pixel array section are included.

Abstract: A light detecting device includes: one or more switch transistors, a first pixel including a first floating diffusion region coupled to a first photoelectric converter through a first transfer transistor, and a first amplification transistor coupled to the first floating diffusion region, a second pixel including a second floating diffusion region coupled to a second photoelectric converter through a second transfer transistor, and a second amplification transistor coupled to the second floating diffusion region, and a third pixel including a third floating diffusion region coupled to a third photoelectric converter through a third transfer transistor, and a third amplification transistor coupled to the third floating diffusion region. A pixel signal is differentially amplified by the first and third amplification transistors. The first and second floating diffusion regions are selectively connected to each other via one of the one or more switch transistors.

Abstract: An incoming call detection unit (102) detects an incoming call, a time discerning unit (104) uses a clock (103) to discern the time of detection of the incoming call, a response message selection unit (107) reads from schedule storage unit (105) status information that has been placed in correspondence with time information that includes the time that was discerned, a response message selection unit (107), by reading from the response message storage unit (106) the response message that is placed in correspondence with the status information that was read, selects a response message, and a response unit (108) transmits the response message that was selected to the call originator of the incoming call.

Abstract: An information terminal apparatus generates and holds, for each operation of the user, operation record information which is representative of an association between information indicating operating states of the information terminal apparatus which correspond to operations of the user, information indicating functions of the information terminal apparatus which are to be shifted from the operating states by the user, and information indicating the number of times that the functions are executed. When the user carries out an operation, the information terminal apparatus extracts operation record information which matches the operating state of the information terminal apparatus corresponding to the operation, and displays operation candidate information that comprises the extracted operation record information.

Abstract: There is described a network system, which make it possible not only to easily retrieve a desired service, but also to heighten the security level of the network system. Instead of displaying all of the apparatuses residing on the network in such a manner that these are totally perceptible for the users of them relative to each other, the network system is so constituted that the service utilizing apparatus broadcasts the delivery information including the confirming information, so that each of the service providing apparatuses can determine whether or not the first confirming information included in the delivery information agrees to the second confirming information stored in advance in the storage section, and when the service providing apparatus determines that the first confirming information agrees to the second confirming information, the service providing apparatus transmits specific information for specifying the service providing apparatus itself to the service utilizing apparatus.