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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1992
Walter F Kosonocky, Skillman, NJ (US);
John L Lowrance, Princeton, NJ (US);
Princeton Scientific Instruments, Inc., Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (US);
Abstract
Circuits and systems embodying the invention include an image sensor comprising an array of 'M' photo sensing elements arranged in 'R' rows and 'C' columns, where R and C are integers greater than one and R times C is equal to M. Coupled to each one of the photo sensing elements is a storage register functioning as a local memory, with each storage register comprising N storage elements, where N may range from a few to several hundred (or even several thousand) storage elements. Each photo sensing element is coupled to its associated N storage elements for selectively enabling the high speed transfer of photo information from each photo sensing element to its associated N storage elements during a photo data acquisition phase. The N storage elements associated with each photosensing element function as a local memory enabling up to 'N' frames of information to be captured and transferred at a high frame rate from the photosensing element to the storage elements during image (photo) sensing and the storage of the 'N' frames of information until the subsequent read-out of the stored information. The registers are preferably formed using charge coupled devices (CCD's). The N storage elements of each register may be arranged in a purely serial format or in a serial-parallel format or arranged like an X-Y memory array.