Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Routing for DTOF sensors
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Application No.: US17868261Application Date: 2022-07-19
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Publication No.: US11822017B2Publication Date: 2023-11-21
- Inventor: Neale Dutton , John Kevin Moore
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Marlow
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Marlow
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Main IPC: G06V20/64
- IPC: G06V20/64 ; G01S7/4863 ; G01S17/89

Abstract:
A ToF sensor includes an array of pixels having first and second subsets of pixels, first and second pluralities of TDCs, a routing bus having first and second pluralities of bus drivers, and a controller configured to: when the first subset of pixels is active and the second subset of pixels is not active, control the first plurality of bus drivers to route events from half of the pixels of the first subset to the first plurality of TDCs and control the first and second pluralities of bus drivers to route events from the other half of the pixels of the first subset to the second plurality of TDCs, and when the first subset of pixels is not active and the second subset of pixels is active, control the first plurality of bus drivers to route events from the second subset of pixels to the first plurality of TDCs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220357435A1 Routing For DTOF Sensors Public/Granted day:2022-11-10
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