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- 专利标题: Image sensing pixels with feedback loops for imaging systems
- 专利标题(中): 具有用于成像系统的反馈回路的图像感测像素
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申请号: US12963525申请日: 2010-12-08
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公开(公告)号: US08390712B2公开(公告)日: 2013-03-05
- 发明人: Chen Xu , Yaowu Mo
- 申请人: Chen Xu , Yaowu Mo
- 申请人地址: KY George Town
- 专利权人: Aptina Imaging Corporation
- 当前专利权人: Aptina Imaging Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: KY George Town
- 代理机构: Treyz Law Group
- 代理商 David C. Kellogg
- 主分类号: H04N3/14
- IPC分类号: H04N3/14 ; H01L27/00
摘要:
An imaging system may include an image sensor array formed from imaging pixels with feedback loops. Each imaging pixel may include an amplifier transistor that is controlled by a voltage on a floating diffusion node and may include a feedback transistor connected between the floating diffusion node and column readout circuitry. The amplifier transistor, together with a current source in the image sensor array, may form a common-source amplifier that inversely amplifies the voltage on the floating diffusion node and provides control signals to the feedback transistor. The common-source amplifier and the feedback transistor may create a feedback loop during image readout operations and during image reset operations that clamps the voltage on the floating diffusion node.
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