Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD OF COLLECTING SIGNALS SENSED FROM SENSING TRANSISTORS, CORRESPONDING SENSOR DEVICE AND IMAGING CAMERA
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Application No.: US17745465Application Date: 2022-05-16
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Publication No.: US20220377260A1Publication Date: 2022-11-24
- Inventor: Pierpaolo LOMBARDO , Michele VAIANA
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Priority: IT102021000013181 20210520
- Main IPC: H04N5/33
- IPC: H04N5/33 ; G01J5/06 ; G01J5/20 ; G01J5/08

Abstract:
Current signals indicative of sensed physical quantities are collected from sensing transistors in an array of sensing transistors. The sensing transistors have respective control nodes and current channel paths therethrough between respective first nodes and a second node common to the sensing transistors. A bias voltage level is applied to the respective first nodes of the sensing transistors in the array and one sensing transistor in the array of sensing transistors is selected. The selected sensing transistor is decoupled from the bias voltage level, while the remaining sensing transistors in the array of sensing transistors maintain coupling to the bias voltage level. The respective first node of the selected sensing transistor in the array of sensing transistors is coupled to an output node, and an output current signal is collected from the output node.
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