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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Adam Jacobs, Woodcliff Lake, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Adam Jacobs, Woodcliff Lake, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Electro Optical Sciences INC, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/217 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for accounting for dark current in the output of an imaging array is presented. A dark current monitor on the monolithic semiconductor imaging array is provided. The dark current monitor may be darkened pixels of the imaging array, darkened pixels of another array, or a temperature monitor and associated circuitry necessary to calculate relative dark current from the monitored temperature.