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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Billings Merrill, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Foveonics, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2502081 ; 348308 ; 348306 ;
Abstract
The noise in the photo information output from a CMOS-based active pixel sensor cell is reduced by setting the voltage on the output of the cell to a predetermined voltage, such as ground or the power supply voltage, each time the cell is read prior to the cell being read.