Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Nonlinear error correction processor for an image sensor
- Patent Title (中): 用于图像传感器的非线性误差校正处理器
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Application No.: US12303259Application Date: 2007-06-13
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Publication No.: US08169498B2Publication Date: 2012-05-01
- Inventor: Yuichiro Yamashita
- Applicant: Yuichiro Yamashita
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2006-167750 20060616
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/062361 WO 20070613
- International Announcement: WO2007/145364 WO 20071221
- Main IPC: H04N5/228
- IPC: H04N5/228 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/217 ; H03M1/66 ; H03M1/12 ; H03M1/06 ; H01L27/00

Abstract:
An image pickup device is provided, capable of complete correction with data of once analog-to-digital conversion, and prevention of excess use of switches and analog devices and/or erroneous correction, including: an image sensor having a plurality of analog-to-digital converters determining conversion results from a digital signal of higher order bit through separate steps of two or more times; a first correction unit which has a correction factor for correcting nonlinear errors of the plurality of analog-to-digital converters so as to adapt to the analog-to-digital converters and corrects a nonlinear error of a digital signal output from respective analog-to-digital converters based on a correction factor corresponding to respective analog-to-digital converters, characterized in that the first correction unit corrects the nonlinear errors after converting the digital signals from the plurality of analog-to-digital converters into a serial output.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090244328A1 IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2009-10-01
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