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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2002
Gregory O. Moberg, Rochester, NY (US);
John P. Shepherd, Rochester, NY (US);
Raymond J. Bouvy, Rochester, NY (US);
John P. Mccarten, Penfield, NY (US);
Gregory O. Moberg, Rochester, NY (US);
John P. Shepherd, Rochester, NY (US);
Raymond J. Bouvy, Rochester, NY (US);
John P. McCarten, Penfield, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for reducing shutter latency while maintaining low dark current in the imager and minimizing energy consumption in a digital camera, the method including the steps of providing an imager operating in accumulation mode; and substantially continuous flushing of charges from the imager before capturing an exposure of an image with a time between vertical transfers greater than or equal to time between vertical transfers during normal image readout so that, if continuous flushing for a time necessary to readout substantially all rows of pixels has occurred, the exposure may be captured with substantially zero latency.