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Patent No.:

US 10637485 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2018

Oscillator arrangement for time-to-digital converter for large array of time-of-flight image sensor devices

Applicant:

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (Epfl), Lausanne, CH;

Inventors:

Augusto Ronchini Ximenes, Delft, NL;

Preethi Padmanabhan, Neuchatel, CH;

Edoardo Charbon, The Hague, NL;

Assignee:

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), Lausanne, CH;

Attorney:

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Primary Examiner:

Que Tan Le

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/486 (2020.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01); G04F 10/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/4865 (2020.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); H03H 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/0995 (2013.01); G01S 7/4865 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G04F 10/005 (2013.01); H03H 7/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

An oscillator arrangement for time-to-digital converters for a 3D image sensor device includes a plurality of oscillators arranged as an array each oscillator being associated to one time-to-digital converter, and at least one coupling unit respectively arranged between at least two of the oscillators, so that oscillation in the at least two oscillators at a fundamental frequency is synchronized between the at least two coupled oscillators.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Ronchini Ximenes, Augusto. (2020). Oscillator arrangement for time-to-digital converter for large array of time-of-flight image sensor devices (U.S. Patent No. 10637485). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10637485

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