Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analog-to-digital converter for an image sensor
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Application No.: US17440327Application Date: 2020-02-05
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Publication No.: US11770640B2Publication Date: 2023-09-26
- Inventor: Wesley Cotteleer
- Applicant: ams Sensors Belgium BVBA
- Applicant Address: BE Antwerp
- Assignee: AMS SENSORS BELGIUM BVBA
- Current Assignee: AMS SENSORS BELGIUM BVBA
- Current Assignee Address: BE Antwerp
- Agency: MH2 TECHNOLOGY LAW GROUP LLP
- Priority: EP 164047 2019.03.20
- International Application: PCT/EP2020/052836 2020.02.05
- International Announcement: WO2020/187482A 2020.09.24
- Date entered country: 2021-09-17
- Main IPC: H04N25/772
- IPC: H04N25/772 ; H03M1/00 ; H03M1/06 ; H04N25/75 ; H04N25/71 ; H04N25/771

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter for an image sensor comprises a counter circuit to generate a respective counter bit in response to a counter state of the counter circuit, and a storage circuit for storing a respective storage state in response the respective counter bit. The converter further comprises a comparator circuit for generating a level of a comparison signal, and a synchronization circuit to generate a write control signal for controlling the storing of the respective storage state in the respective storage cell. The counter circuit is configured to change the counter state, when a first edge of a cycle of the clock signal is applied to the counter circuit, and to generate the write control signal, when a second edge of the cycle of the clock signal being subsequent to the first edge of the cycle of the clock signal is applied to the synchronization circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220150438A1 ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER FOR AN IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2022-05-12
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