Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pixel sensor having multiple photodiodes and shared comparator
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Application No.: US16550851Application Date: 2019-08-26
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Publication No.: US11956413B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Song Chen , Xinqiao Liu , Lyle David Bainbridge , Andrew Samuel Berkovich
- Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/355
- IPC: H04N5/355 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N13/286

Abstract:
In one example, an apparatus comprises: a first photodiode to generate a first charge; a second photodiode to generate a second charge; a quantizer; a first memory bank and a second memory bank; and a controller configured to: control the quantizer to perform a first quantization operation and a second quantization operation of the first charge to generate, respectively, a first digital output and a second digital output, the first and second quantization operations being associated with different intensity ranges; store one of the first digital output or the second digital output in the first memory bank; control the quantizer to perform a third quantization operation of the second charge to generate a third digital output, the third quantization operation being associated with a different intensity range from at least one of the first or second quantization operations; and store the third digital output in the second memory bank.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200068189A1 PIXEL SENSOR HAVING MULTIPLE PHOTODIODES AND SHARED COMPARATOR Public/Granted day:2020-02-27
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