Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor with readout circuit
- Patent Title (中): 带读出电路的图像传感器
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Application No.: US10405904Application Date: 2003-04-02
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Publication No.: US07911512B2Publication Date: 2011-03-22
- Inventor: Robert Henderson
- Applicant: Robert Henderson
- Applicant Address: GB Marlow, Buckinghamshire
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics Ltd.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: GB Marlow, Buckinghamshire
- Agency: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.
- Agent Lisa K. Jorgenson
- Priority: EP02252385 20020402
- Main IPC: H04N9/68
- IPC: H04N9/68 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
An image sensor has an array of pixels. Each column has a first and a second column line connected to a read-reset amplifier/comparator which acts in a first mode as a unity gain buffer amplifier to reset the pixels via the first lines, and in a second mode acts as a comparator and AD converter to produce digitized reset and signal values. The reset and signal values are read out a line at a time in interleaved fashion. Reset values are stored in a memory and subsequently subtracted from the corresponding signal values. The arrangement reduces both fixed pattern and kT/C noise.
Public/Granted literature
- US20030193595A1 Image sensor with readout circuit Public/Granted day:2003-10-16
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