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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Andrew Kuzma, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348311 ; 348315 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for converting light images into a series of charge stores that are output in predetermined subsections is described. An integrated circuit is provided having multiple light sensitive elements embedded on its surface. These light sensitive elements are coupled to the input gates of a series of charge-coupled devices that can be clocked in a manner that allows various charge stores created by the light sensitive elements to be sampled. The charge coupled devices are configured in a manner that causes the charge stores created by the light sensitive elements to be extracted in an order that corresponds to rows of subsections of an image.