Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for controlling an active pixel image sensor
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Application No.: US15747057Application Date: 2016-07-29
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Publication No.: US10587830B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Frédéric Mayer , Frédéric Barbier , Stéphane Gesset
- Applicant: Teledyne e2v Semiconductors SAS
- Applicant Address: FR Saint Egreve
- Assignee: TELEDYNE E2V SEMICONDUCTORS SAS
- Current Assignee: TELEDYNE E2V SEMICONDUCTORS SAS
- Current Assignee Address: FR Saint Egreve
- Agency: Pilloff Passino & Cosenza LLP
- Agent Sean A. Passino; Rachel K. Pilloff
- Priority: FR1557460 20150803
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/068221 WO 20160729
- International Announcement: WO2017/021328 WO 20170209
- Main IPC: H04N5/3745
- IPC: H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/374 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
In a sensor comprising active pixels including a photodiode PHD, a memory node MN and a read-out node SN, the memory node being provided to hold the charge generated by the photodiode at the end of an integration period enabling integration in global-shutter mode and a correlated double sampling read-out, provision is made for the charge-storage capacity of the memory node to be at least N times higher than the charge-storage capacity of the photodiode (N being an integer higher than or equal to 2) and provision is made to carry out, in each integration and read-out cycle, during the integration duration Tint(i), N transfers Tri1, Tri2, Tri3 of charge from the photodiode to the memory node, the N transfers being equally distributed over the integration duration. The dynamic range of the sensor is improved under high light levels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180367748A1 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ACTIVE PIXEL IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2018-12-20
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