Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High dynamic range image sensor
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Application No.: US15051545Application Date: 2016-02-23
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Publication No.: US10009558B2Publication Date: 2018-06-26
- Inventor: Tarek Lule , Jérôme Chossat , Benoît Deschamps
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS
- Applicant Address: FR Grenoble
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS
- Current Assignee Address: FR Grenoble
- Agency: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP
- Priority: FR1560206 20151026
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/353 ; H04N5/355 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an image sensor including: a plurality of pixels, each including a first photodiode coupled to a first capacitive charge storage node by a first transistor, and a second photodiode coupled to a second capacitive charge storage node by a second transistor; and a control circuit configured so as to, during a phase of acquisition of a value representative of the illumination level of a pixel: acquire a first output value representative of the illumination level received by the first photodiode during a first uninterrupted integration period; and acquire a second output value representative of the illumination level received by the second photodiode during a second integration period divided into a plurality of separate sub-periods.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170118424A1 HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2017-04-27
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