Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for asynchronous, time-based image sensing
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Application No.: US17051148Application Date: 2019-04-30
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Publication No.: US11412162B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Thomas Finateu , Daniel Matolin , Christoph Posch
- Applicant: PROPHESEE
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: PROPHESEE
- Current Assignee: PROPHESEE
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
- Priority: EP18170201 20180430
- International Application: PCT/EP2019/061133 WO 20190430
- International Announcement: WO2019/211317 WO 20091107
- Main IPC: H04N5/353
- IPC: H04N5/353 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photosensitive element, and a photo-signal converter adapted to provide, on a first output, a current signal linearly proportional to the intensity of light impinging on the photosensitive element and to provide, on a second output, a voltage signal logarithmic with the intensity of light impinging on the photosensitive element. Each pixel further includes a detector adapted to generate a trigger signal when a signal of the detector proportional to the voltage signal of the second output of the photo-signal converter exceeds a threshold, and a light-to-time converter adapted to measure and encode, in the time domain, light intensity on the photosensitive element. A light-to-time conversion cycle may be initiated by the light-to-time converter in response to receipt of the trigger signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210235028A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS, TIME-BASED IMAGE SENSING Public/Granted day:2021-07-29
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