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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2019
Teledyne Dalsa B.v., Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
W. J. de Haan, Eindhoven, NL;
Daniel Verbugt, Helden, NL;
TELEDYNE DALSA B.V., Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an image sensor. More in particular, the present invention relates to an image sensor that comprises dose sensing pixels to sense an incident dose of photons. Such dose sensing can be used to trigger an image capturing process. A dose sensing pixel will act as a dose sensing pixel in a dose sensing mode of the sensor in dependence of a signal on a dose select line. The invention proposes a dose select line connecting unit for connecting dose select lines of a first stitching block among adjacent stitching blocks to a respective dose select line of a second stitching block among adjacent stitching blocks to prevent multiple dose sensing pixels in the same column of the matrix of pixels from being selected in the dose sensing mode.