Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power-conserving clocking for scanning sensors
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Application No.: US15713003Application Date: 2017-09-22
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Publication No.: US10469782B2Publication Date: 2019-11-05
- Inventor: David L. Brown
- Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Milpitas
- Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
- Current Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Milpitas
- Agency: Suiter Swantz pc llo
- Main IPC: H04N5/372
- IPC: H04N5/372 ; H04N5/369 ; H01L27/148 ; H04N5/3725 ; H04N5/376 ; G02B26/12 ; G02B21/24

Abstract:
A time delay and integration charge coupled device includes an array of pixels and a clock generator. The array of pixels is distributed in a scan direction and a line direction perpendicular to the scan direction in which at least some of the pixels of the array include three or more gates aligned in the scan direction. The clock generator provides clocking signals to transfer charge along the scan direction between two or more pixel groups including two or more pixels adjacent in the scan direction. The clocking signals include phase signals to transfer the charge to an adjacent pixel group along the scan direction at a rate corresponding to the velocity of the target by driving the gates of the two or more pixel groups and generating a common potential well per pixel group for containing charge generated in response to incident illumination.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180091751A1 Power-Conserving Clocking for Scanning Sensors Public/Granted day:2018-03-29
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