Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reference clock-less CMOS image sensor
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Application No.: US15272145Application Date: 2016-09-21
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Publication No.: US10175715B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Charles Qingle Wu , Li Yang , Zhenhua Zhu
- Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F13/42 ; G06F1/08 ; H04N5/374

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for a reference clock-less CMOS image sensor are disclosed herein. An example apparatus may include a controller coupled to an image sensor via a serial bus, and the controller may provide an access burst to the image sensor over the serial bus, the access burst including a plurality of data signals and an associated clock signal, where the associated clock signal is a timing signal for the acquisition of bits of the plurality of data signals. The image sensor may calibrate an internal clock signal in response to a comparison of a number of cycles of the internal clock signal occurring during the access burst to a number of cycles of the associated clock signal occurring during the access burst, where the associated clock signal cycles at a first frequency and the internal clock signal cycles at a second frequency different than the first frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180081389A1 REFERENCE CLOCK-LESS CMOS IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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