A photoelectric conversion device and a method of driving the same according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to
In the present embodiment, a specific configuration example of the readout circuits 30 and 50 and the operation thereof will be described. Other configurations and respective operations are the same as those in the photoelectric conversion device according to the first embodiment.
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The plurality of comparator circuits 32 are provided in association with respective columns of the pixel array in the pixel region 10. Each of the plurality of comparator circuits 32 is connected to the output line 16 on a corresponding column. Further, each of the plurality of comparator circuits 32 is connected to the ramp signal generation circuit 36, the counter circuit 38, and the signal processing circuit 40. Note that, in