Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging systems and methods for mitigating pixel data quantization error
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Application No.: US14264984Application Date: 2014-04-29
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Publication No.: US09648265B2Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- Inventor: Roger Panicacci , Jeffery Beck , Barry Vanhoff
- Applicant: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Michael H. Lyons; Joseph F. Guihan
- Main IPC: H04N9/64
- IPC: H04N9/64 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/361 ; H04N5/365

Abstract:
An image sensor may have an array of pixels and readout circuitry. The array may include image pixels that generate signals in response to image light and reference pixels that generate signals in response to electrical noise. The readout circuitry may obtain first pixel values from the image pixels and may obtain second pixel values from the reference pixels. The readout circuitry may generate an extended precision pixel value based on the second pixel values that have an extended bit width relative to the each of the second pixel values. The readout circuitry may generate multiple dithered correction values by adding randomized sequences of least significant bits to the extended precision pixel value. The readout circuitry may mitigate visible quantization error and noise such as row-correlated and column-correlated noise in the final image by subtracting the dithered correction values from corresponding first pixel values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150312499A1 IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING PIXEL DATA QUANTIZATION ERROR Public/Granted day:2015-10-29
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