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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
May. 12, 2016
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Raminda Madurawe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
An imaging system may include multi-port pixels. A multi-port pixel may include a photodiode that generates electrical charge in response to received light and a plurality of access ports that couple the electrical charge onto one of a corresponding plurality of pixel output lines. The photodiode may generate electrical charge for one or more different integration times while a frame is being captured. Charge generated during the different integration times may be coupled onto different respective pixel output lines through different respective access ports. Multiple pixels in a given column of the pixel array may simultaneously couple charge generated during different integration times onto different pixel output lines through different access ports.