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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2016
Applicant:
Sensors Unlimited, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Joshua Lund, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Sensors Unlimited, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/146 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/14605 (2013.01); G06T 1/0021 (2013.01); H04N 1/32267 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); G06T 2200/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging sensor includes an imaging array with a plurality of pixels. A sub-set of the pixels are marker pixels configured to each provide a constant respective output value to embed an orientation and alignment marker in images produced with the imaging array. The marker pixels can be sparsely distributed across the imaging array.