METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A PHOTON DETECTING STRUCTURE AND DEVICE USING COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS

    公开(公告)号:US20230098450A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17955404

    申请日:2022-09-28

    IPC分类号: H01L27/146 H04N5/369 H04N5/33

    摘要: Photosensitive semiconducting devices, such as bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) can be built up over a substrate that may include a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC). Semiconducting layers can be deposited over the substrate and bottom electrodes that are on or at the substrate's top surface. The bottom electrodes may be the input pads of the ROIC. A top electrode is deposited over the semiconducting layers. The semiconducting layers can form BJTs between the bottom electrodes and the top electrode. The top electrode and the bottom electrodes are the BJTs collectors and emitters. The semiconducting layers include a P-type quantum dot layer and a N-type metal oxide layer. The quantum dots act as light sensors for the ROIC because photons absorbed in a semiconducting layer can produce a BJT base current. The BJTs can be formed without requiring a vacuum or patterning of the top electrode.

    Multi-aperture ranging devices and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11490067B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-01

    申请号:US17397935

    申请日:2021-08-09

    摘要: Embodiments of systems and methods for multi-aperture ranging are disclosed. An embodiment of a device includes a main lens, configured to receive an image from the field of view of the main lens, a multi-aperture optical component having optical elements optically coupled to the main lens and configured to create a multi-aperture image set that includes a plurality of subaperture images, wherein at least one point in the field of view is captured by at least two of the subaperture images, an array of sensing elements, a ROIC configured to receive the signals, to convert the signals to digital data, and to output the digital data, and an image processing system, responsive to the digital data that is output from the ROIC, which is configured to generate disparity values that correspond to at least one point in common between the at least two subaperture images.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THERMAL IMAGE SENSING

    公开(公告)号:US20240264003A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-08

    申请号:US18435118

    申请日:2024-02-07

    IPC分类号: G01J5/02 G01J5/00 H03M3/00

    摘要: Methods and systems for thermal image sensing are disclosed. A method involves controlling a current (IACT) from a detector of a thermal image sensor with a first pulse width modulated (PWM) signal (PWMACT) for gain control, controlling a current (IREF) from a reference source of the thermal image sensor with a second PWM signal (PWMFEEDBACK) for gain control and for offset correction, wherein the second PWM signal (PWMFEEDBACK) is generated in response to a digital output (DQ) that is fed back from an analog to digital conversion circuit, and providing a current (ISUM), which is the sum of the current (IACT) and the current (IREF), to the analog to digital conversion circuit.

    TRAJECTORY DETECTION DEVICES AND METHODS
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190295264A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-26

    申请号:US16358873

    申请日:2019-03-20

    发明人: Eugene M. PETILLI

    IPC分类号: G06T7/20 H04N5/225

    摘要: A trajectory detection device includes a lens configured to receive an image of a field of view. An array of microlenses is configured to create an array of light field images based on the image. A detector array includes a plurality of photon sensitive photodetectors. The detector array is configured to generate output signals from each photodetector based on the array of light field images. A controller is configured to integrate the output signals over an integration period. At least a portion of the output signals are modulated at a modulating frequency having a modulating frequency cycle time that is smaller than the integration period. A three-dimensional image of motion in the field of view is generated based on the integration of the modulated output signals.

    MULTI-APERTURE RANGING DEVICES AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20230048140A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-16

    申请号:US17976619

    申请日:2022-10-28

    摘要: Embodiments of systems and methods for multi-aperture ranging are disclosed. An embodiment of an image processing system includes at least one processor and memory configured to receive a multi-aperture image set that includes a high-resolution subaperture image and a low-resolution subaperture image, wherein the high-resolution subaperture image and the low-resolution subaperture image were captured simultaneously from a camera using dissimilar focal lengths, predict a high-resolution predicted disparity map from the high-resolution subaperture image using a neural network, predict a low-resolution predicted disparity map from the low-resolution subaperture image using the neural network, and generate an integrated range map from the high-resolution and low-resolution predicted disparity maps, wherein the integrated range map includes an array of range information that corresponds to the multi-aperture image set and that is generated by overlaying common points in both the high-resolution predicted disparity map and the low-resolution predicted disparity map.

    SPLIT-FIELD OPTICS FOR IMAGING AND RANGING

    公开(公告)号:US20230008557A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-12

    申请号:US17858851

    申请日:2022-07-06

    IPC分类号: G02B27/28 G02B13/00

    摘要: An imaging apparatus has one or more lenses with a common optical axis and that define an image plane. A splitting optic is disposed to split the light along the optical axis to provide, at the image plane, at least a first copy of an image at a first magnification and a second copy of the image at a second magnification different from the first magnification.