Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Differential digital double sampling method and CMOS image sensor for performing same
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Application No.: US15690034Application Date: 2017-08-29
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Publication No.: US10284801B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Juul Josephus Johannes Van Den Heijkant , Jeroen Rotte , Petrus Gijsbertus Centen
- Applicant: GVBB HOLDINGS S.A.R.L.
- Applicant Address: LU Luxembourg
- Assignee: GVBB HOLDINGS S.A.R.L.
- Current Assignee: GVBB HOLDINGS S.A.R.L.
- Current Assignee Address: LU Luxembourg
- Agency: Arent Fox LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/374
- IPC: H04N5/374 ; H04N5/3745 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/363 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/345 ; H04N5/376

Abstract:
A method for performing differential double sampling and a CMOS image sensing device for performing the same. In one example, the CMOS image sensing device includes a pixel array include a multitude of pixels with each pixel formed by a plurality of photodiodes, a floating diffusion point and a plurality of transistors electrically coupled the plurality of photodiodes. Moreover, a column readout circuit with four storage capacitors is selectively coupled to the pixel array by switches so that the storage capacitors can store sampled pixel values. A control circuit connected to the pixel array and the column readout circuit selectively activates the transistors to output to the column readout circuit sampled dark value and bright values of one photodiode and a sampled double bright value of the one photodiode and one additional photodiode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180070035A1 DIFFERENTIAL DIGITAL DOUBLE SAMPLING METHOD AND CMOS IMAGE SENSOR FOR PERFORMING SAME Public/Granted day:2018-03-08
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