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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:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2005
Applicants:
Chiajen M. Lee, Irvine, CA (US);
Kwang-bo Cho, Valencia, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chiajen M. Lee, Irvine, CA (US);
Kwang-Bo Cho, Valencia, CA (US);
Assignee:
Aptina Imaging Corporation, Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/00 (2006.01); H03F 3/08 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging device with readout chain circuitry that uses multiple analog-to-digital converters and amplifiers, which are similarly calibrated using a stitching technique, to readout each color of a column and mitigate the possibility of a boundary effect.