Invention Application
- Patent Title: OPTICAL SENSOR WITH SIMULTANEOUS IMAGE/VIDEO AND EVENT DRIVEN SENSING CAPABILITIES
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Application No.: US17125630Application Date: 2020-12-17
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Publication No.: US20220201236A1Publication Date: 2022-06-23
- Inventor: Zhe Gao , Tiejun Dai , Ling Fu , Qing Qin , Andreas Suess
- 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
- Main IPC: H04N5/3745
- IPC: H04N5/3745 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
An optical sensor includes a pixel array of pixel cells. Each pixel cell includes photodiodes to photogenerate charge in response to incident light and a source follower to generate an image data signal in response to the charge photogenerated from the photodiodes. An image readout circuit is coupled to the pixel cells to read out the image data signal generated from the source follower of at least one of the pixel cells of a row of the pixel array. An event driven circuit is coupled to the pixel cells to read out the event data signals generated in response to the charge from the photodiodes of another row of the pixel cells of the pixel array. The image readout circuit is coupled to read out the image data signal and the event driven circuit is coupled to read out the event data signals from pixel array simultaneously.
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