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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2002
Nathaniel Joseph Mccaffrey, Delaware, NJ (US);
Peter Ferdinand Zalud, New Hope, PA (US);
Scott Thomas Smith, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Thomas Kalinowski, Flemington, NJ (US);
Nathaniel Joseph McCaffrey, Delaware, NJ (US);
Peter Ferdinand Zalud, New Hope, PA (US);
Scott Thomas Smith, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Thomas Kalinowski, Flemington, NJ (US);
Dialog Semiconductor GmbH, Tech-Nabern, DE;
Abstract
There is shown an single chip CMOS device for capturing a video image. The device includes an APS imager containing an array of pixels for providing a signal representing a scene, a row of extended dynamic range sample and hold circuits for receiving a signal from the array of pixels and a row of linear sample and hold circuits for receiving another signal for said array of pixels. Also included is an image processor for determining a controllable function and for processing a plurality of signals received from the extended dynamic range sample and hold circuits and the linear sample and hold circuits according to said controllable function to form a processed video signal. Further included is a memory for storing the controllable function and the processed video signal.