Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging systems with column current mirror circuitry
- Patent Title (中): 具有列电流镜电路的成像系统
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Application No.: US13454745Application Date: 2012-04-24
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Publication No.: US08952311B2Publication Date: 2015-02-10
- Inventor: Richard Scott Johnson
- Applicant: Richard Scott Johnson
- Applicant Address: KY George Town
- Assignee: Aptina Imaging Corporation
- Current Assignee: Aptina Imaging Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: KY George Town
- Agency: Treyz Law Group
- Agent Louis R. Levenson; Michael H. Lyons
- Main IPC: H01L27/00
- IPC: H01L27/00 ; H04N5/365 ; H04N5/367 ; H04N5/374

Abstract:
Electronic devices may include image sensors having image pixel arrays with image pixels arranged in pixel rows and pixel columns. Each pixel column may be coupled to an active and an inactive current supply circuit. Each active current supply circuit may form a portion of a current mirror circuit that includes a common current source and a common input transistor. Each active current supply circuit may include a mirror transistor for mirroring current that flows through the common input transistor and a permanently enabled enabling transistor for activating that mirror transistor. Mirrored current that flows through a particular active mirror transistor may be supplied to image pixels in the pixel column associated with that particular mirror transistor. Each inactive current supply circuit may include a mirror transistor coupled to the input transistor and a permanently disabled enabling transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130020467A1 IMAGING SYSTEMS WITH COLUMN CURRENT MIRROR CIRCUITRY Public/Granted day:2013-01-24
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