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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
May. 02, 2005
Michael Overdick, Langerwehe, DE;
Walter Ruetten, Linnich, DE;
Michael Overdick, Langerwehe, DE;
Walter Ruetten, Linnich, DE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Electronics devices like X-ray detectors with an array of pixels are combined (binned) into binning blocks of m×n pixels. Available read-out lines of the device are all connected to different binning blocks, such that up to m binning blocks are addressed simultaneously in the vertical direction when m×n binning is used. In this case, the output signals from the m vertically arranged blocks are distributed over the m read-out columns present in the m×n locks. Row address lines together with diagonal address lines and a simple activation logic provide the required versatile addressing of the pixels.