Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Synchronous time code image sensor
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Application No.: US15675762Application Date: 2017-08-13
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Publication No.: US10484635B2Publication Date: 2019-11-19
- Inventor: Arnaud Verdant , William Guicquero
- Applicant: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Moreno IP Law LLC
- Priority: JP1660627 20161103
- Main IPC: H04N5/374
- IPC: H04N5/374 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
An image sensor including: a plurality of pixels, each pixel being capable of supplying an output signal representative of a quantity of light energy received from a time of beginning of a pixel integration phase; and a control circuit configured to, during a phase of acquisition of an image, successively select each pixel a number n of times during a same pixel integration phase, without resetting the pixel between the first and the last selection of the pixel and, for each selection of a pixel, compare the output signal of the pixel with a quantization threshold and read a binary signal representative of the result of the comparison.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180124348A1 SYNCHRONOUS TIME CODE IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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