Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor with very high dynamic range
- Patent Title (中): 图像传感器具有非常高的动态范围
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Application No.: US13427846Application Date: 2012-03-22
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Publication No.: US08692175B2Publication Date: 2014-04-08
- Inventor: Pierre Fereyre , Frederic Mayer
- Applicant: Pierre Fereyre , Frederic Mayer
- Applicant Address: FR Saint-Égrève
- Assignee: E2V Semiconductors
- Current Assignee: E2V Semiconductors
- Current Assignee Address: FR Saint-Égrève
- Agency: Lowe Hauptman & Ham, LLP
- Priority: FR1152414 20110323
- Main IPC: H01J43/04
- IPC: H01J43/04

Abstract:
A image sensor includes active pixels for gathering images at very high and very low luminance level. Each pixel includes at least one photodiode, a charge storage node, an electron multiplication amplification structure, a unit for transferring electrons from the photodiode to the structure, a unit for transferring electrons from the amplification structure to the storage node after multiplication, a transistor for reinitializing the potential of the storage node. The pixels are read by a reading circuit which samples the potential of the charge storage node after reinitialization and after transfer of the electrons into the storage node and which provides a corresponding illumination measurement. The sensor furthermore includes a unit for carrying out the integration of charge in two different durations in the course of one and the same frame, and for giving the amplification structure multiplication factors different to the charge integrated in the course of these durations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120241595A1 IMAGE SENSOR WITH VERY HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE Public/Granted day:2012-09-27
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