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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2001
William J. Parrish, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Naseem Y. Aziz, Goleta, CA (US);
Glenn T. Kincaid, Goleta, CA (US);
Indigo Systems Corporation, Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
An electro-optical sensor includes a detector pixel including a plurality of detector elements responsive to electromagnetic radiation, and a plurality of switches configurable to selectively combine signals from the detector elements in the detector pixel to provide a signal corresponding to a pixel in an image. The sensor may include a plurality of such detector pixels arranged, for example, in a linear array or in a two-dimensional array. Each of the detector pixels may have an associated group of switches configurable to selectively combine signals from the detector elements in the detector pixel.