Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensors having variable voltage-current characteristics and methods of operating the same
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Application No.: US12805723Application Date: 2010-08-17
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Publication No.: US08975568B2Publication Date: 2015-03-10
- Inventor: Ho-jung Kim , U-in Chung , Jai-kwang Shin , Sun-il Kim , I-hun Song , Chang-jung Kim , Sang-hun Jeon
- Applicant: Ho-jung Kim , U-in Chung , Jai-kwang Shin , Sun-il Kim , I-hun Song , Chang-jung Kim , Sang-hun Jeon
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-Do
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-Do
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: KR10-2009-0108660 20091111
- Main IPC: H01J27/00
- IPC: H01J27/00 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/3745 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
Image sensors and methods of operating the same. An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a photo sensor, the voltage-current characteristics of which vary according to energy of incident light, and that generates a sense current determined by the energy of the incident light; a reset unit that is activated to generate a reference current, according to a reset signal for resetting at least one of the plurality of pixels; and a conversion unit that converts the sense current and the reference current into a sense voltage and a reference voltage, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US09118795B2 Image sensors having variable voltage-current characteristics and methods of operating the same Public/Granted day:2015-08-25
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