Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor combining high dynamic range techniques
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Application No.: US15157284Application Date: 2016-05-17
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Publication No.: US09967472B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Ilya Koshkin , Lester Joseph Kozlowski , Anders Kongstad Petersen , Jeffrey Alan McKee
- Applicant: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa
- Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa
- Agency: Medley, Behrens & Lewis, LLC
- Main IPC: H04N5/235
- IPC: H04N5/235 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/355 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/376

Abstract:
Various technologies described herein pertain to combining high dynamic range techniques to enable rendering higher dynamic range scenes with an image sensor. The image sensor can implement a combination of spatial exposure multiplexing and temporal exposure multiplexing, for example. By way of another example, the image sensor can implement a combination of spatial exposure multiplexing and dual gain operation. Pursuant to another example, the image sensor can implement a combination of temporal exposure multiplexing and dual gain operation. In accordance with yet another example, the image sensor can implement a combination of spatial exposure multiplexing, temporal exposure multiplexing, and dual gain operation. The image sensor can be formed on a single wafer or the image sensor can be a 3D-IC image sensor that includes at least two vertically integrated layers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170339327A1 IMAGE SENSOR COMBINING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE TECHNIQUES Public/Granted day:2017-11-23
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