Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pixel read circuitry
- Patent Title (中): 像素读取电路
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Application No.: US12333011Application Date: 2008-12-11
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Publication No.: US08159587B2Publication Date: 2012-04-17
- Inventor: Benoît Deschamps , Frédéric Barbier
- Applicant: Benoît Deschamps , Frédéric Barbier
- Applicant Address: FR Montrouge
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
- Current Assignee Address: FR Montrouge
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: EP07301675 20071213
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04M1/00 ; H01L31/0232

Abstract:
A method of reading voltages from an image sensor having an array of pixels, each pixel Having at least one photodiode connectable to a storage node, the method including: controlling each pixel in a row of pixels to store and output a first voltage value at a first instance, a second voltage value at a second instance, and a third voltage value at a third instance, the first, second and third voltage values being representative of charge accumulated by the photodiodes during an integration phase; comparing the first voltage value from each pixel with a reference threshold; sampling for each pixel, based on the comparison, one of the second and third voltage values, and generating an output pixel value based on the sampled one of the second and third voltage values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090153715A1 PIXEL READ CIRCUITRY Public/Granted day:2009-06-18
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