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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2017
Applicant:
Invisage Technologies, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Emanuele Mandelli, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nikolai Bock, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
InVisage Technologies, Inc., Newark, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/363 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/35572 (2013.01); H04N 5/3535 (2013.01); H04N 5/3559 (2013.01); H04N 5/363 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract
In various embodiments, an electronic image sensor having extended dynamic range comprises, for example, a pixel circuit and a column readout circuit. The column readout circuit includes, for example, a correlated double-sampling (CDS) capacitor, one or more CDS clamp switches, a single slope analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit, and a column memory. Other devices and methods are disclosed.