EP1086578A4 - Cmos integration sensor with fully differential column readout circuit for light adaptive imaging - Google Patents

Cmos integration sensor with fully differential column readout circuit for light adaptive imaging

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Publication number
EP1086578A4
EP1086578A4 EP99912623A EP99912623A EP1086578A4 EP 1086578 A4 EP1086578 A4 EP 1086578A4 EP 99912623 A EP99912623 A EP 99912623A EP 99912623 A EP99912623 A EP 99912623A EP 1086578 A4 EP1086578 A4 EP 1086578A4
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Prior art keywords
readout circuit
fully differential
column readout
adaptive imaging
cmos integration
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EP99912623A
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German (de)
French (fr)
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EP1086578A1 (en
Inventor
Bedabrata Pain
Zhimin Zhou
Eric R Fossum
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California Institute of Technology CalTech
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/40—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled
    • H04N25/46—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled by combining or binning pixels
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/60—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise
    • H04N25/616—Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise involving a correlated sampling function, e.g. correlated double sampling [CDS] or triple sampling
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H04N25/76—Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H04N25/76—Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors
    • H04N25/78—Readout circuits for addressed sensors, e.g. output amplifiers or A/D converters
EP99912623A 1998-03-16 1999-03-16 Cmos integration sensor with fully differential column readout circuit for light adaptive imaging Withdrawn EP1086578A4 (en)

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US7817298P 1998-03-16 1998-03-16
US78172P 1998-03-16
PCT/US1999/005830 WO1999048281A1 (en) 1998-03-16 1999-03-16 Cmos integration sensor with fully differential column readout circuit for light adaptive imaging

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EP1086578A4 true EP1086578A4 (en) 2001-09-26

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JP (1) JP3708824B2 (en)
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WO (1) WO1999048281A1 (en)

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