Abstract: A solid-state imaging device, a method for driving a solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus are provided that are capable of reducing memory circuits of a column reading system, so that the column reading system can achieve a reduced layout area and eventually a reduced size. A column reading circuit includes an AD converting part and a calculating part. The AD converting part is configured to analog-to-digital convert a read-out reset signal and a read-out signal of a pixel signal read to a vertical signal line into an n-bit digital pixel signal. The calculating part includes an n-bit asynchronous counter including a retention circuit with a control logic function, which is configured to obtain a difference between an n-bit read-out reset signal and an n-bit read-out signal produced by the AD conversion performed by the AD converting part.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device, a method for driving a solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus are provided that are capable of reducing memory circuits of a column reading system, so that the column reading system can achieve a reduced layout area and eventually a reduced size. A column reading circuit includes an AD converting part and a calculating part. The AD converting part is configured to analog-to-digital convert a read-out reset signal and a read-out signal of a pixel signal read to a vertical signal line into an n-bit digital pixel signal. The calculating part includes an n-bit asynchronous counter including a retention circuit with a control logic function, which is configured to obtain a difference between an n-bit read-out reset signal and an n-bit read-out signal produced by the AD conversion performed by the AD converting part.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element of the present disclosure includes a pixel array unit in which unit pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit are arranged two-dimensionally in a matrix, and a floating diffusion is shared between a plurality of the unit pixels, and a drive unit that drives to discard, into the floating diffusion, a part of a charge of a non-read pixel sharing the floating diffusion with a read pixel, during a reset period of the floating diffusion of the read pixel for reading the charge.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element of the present disclosure includes: a pixel array unit in which unit pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit are arranged two-dimensionally in a matrix, and a floating diffusion is shared between a plurality of the unit pixels; and a drive unit that drives to discard, into the floating diffusion, a part of a charge of a non-read pixel sharing the floating diffusion with a read pixel, during a reset period of the floating diffusion of the read pixel for reading the charge.

Abstract: A data transfer circuit includes a plurality of data transfer sections which transfer pixel signals of pixel columns which are different from each other, wherein the plurality of data transfer sections include transfer lines which transfer the pixel signals read from the pixel columns of an image sensor; and amplifying sections which amplify the pixel signals output from the transfer lines, and wherein the plurality of data transfer sections are connected to each other in series.

Abstract: A data transfer circuit includes a plurality of data transfer sections which transfer pixel signals of pixel columns which are different from each other, wherein the plurality of data transfer sections include transfer lines which transfer the pixel signals read from the pixel columns of an image sensor; and amplifying sections which amplify the pixel signals output from the transfer lines, and wherein the plurality of data transfer sections are connected to each other in series.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a convenient method of producing zinc pyrrolidonecarboxylate dihydrate, which is an industrially useful compound, with high optical purity, a higher yield, and better dissolution property. The present invention also provides a convenient method of producing zinc pyrrolidonecarboxylate dihydrate with higher optical purity, a higher yield, and better solution property by adding a zinc salt to an aqueous medium containing a salt of pyrrolidonecarboxylic acid as a starting material and separating a crystal from the aqueous medium at a specific pH.