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US09231610B2 SAR analog-to-digital converting apparatus and operating method thereof and CMOS image sensor including the same
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SAR模数转换装置及其操作方法和包括其的CMOS图像传感器
- Patent Title: SAR analog-to-digital converting apparatus and operating method thereof and CMOS image sensor including the same
- Patent Title (中): SAR模数转换装置及其操作方法和包括其的CMOS图像传感器
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Application No.: US14293736Application Date: 2014-06-02
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Publication No.: US09231610B2Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- Inventor: Ja-Seung Gou , Min-Kyu Kim , Oh-Kyong Kwon
- Applicant: SK hynix Inc. , Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do KR Seoul
- Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.,Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
- Current Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.,Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do KR Seoul
- Agency: IP & T Group LLP
- Priority: KR10-2013-0142956 20131122
- Main IPC: H04N5/76
- IPC: H04N5/76 ; H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335 ; H03M1/12 ; H03M1/38 ; H03M1/18 ; H03M1/46 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
A Successive Approximation Register (SAR) analog-to-digital converting apparatus includes a reference voltage supply unit suitable for supplying different reference voltages depending on bits of a pixel output signal to be converted, an N bit SAR analog-to-digital conversion unit suitable for sequentially converting upper N−1 bits and lower N bits of the pixel output signal by selectively using the reference voltages supplied from the reference voltage supply unit, where N is a natural number, and an error correction unit suitable for calculating an error correction value based on a difference between conversion results of the lower N bits, and outputting a 2N−2 bit analog-to-digital conversion result by combining converted upper N−1 bits and converted lower N bits and correcting an error of the reference voltages using the error correction value in the combining.
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