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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kwang-Bo (Austin) Cho, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Photobit Corporation, Pasadena, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2502081 ; 348294 ; 348302 ; 348308 ; 341155 ;
Abstract
A programmable arithmetic circuit to form multiple circuit modules for different arithmetic operations that share certain common electronic elements to reduce the number of elements. Such circuit can be integrated to an imaging sensor array such as a CMOS active pixel sensor array to form arithmetic operations and analog-to-digital conversion for imaging processing.