Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and methods for generating high dynamic range images
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Application No.: US15980327Application Date: 2018-05-15
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Publication No.: US10785426B2Publication Date: 2020-09-22
- Inventor: Pawan Gilhotra
- Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Tianyi He
- Main IPC: H04N5/355
- IPC: H04N5/355 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode, a floating diffusion, and a transfer gate. Column readout circuitry coupled to the image sensor pixel via a column line. The column readout circuitry may include sample and hold circuitry, comparison circuitry, residual measurement and summation circuitry, counter circuitry, analog-to-digital conversion circuitry, and digital summation circuitry. Column readout circuitry is configured to perform readout operations on a pixel image signal generated for a single frame in one or more portions, thereby extending the dynamic range of the imaging system without modifying pixel structure to generate high-dynamic range images within the single frame.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190356871A1 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES Public/Granted day:2019-11-21
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