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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2009
Weng-lyang Wang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shengmin Lin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Weng-Lyang Wang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shengmin Lin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
CMOS Senor, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-pixel row wafer-scale cluster image sensor chip (WCISC) is proposed. Expressed in X-Y-Z coordinates with its pixel rows along X-axis, the WCISC converts areal image frame (IMFM) into areal image frame signal (AIFS). The WCISC includes multiple imaging pixel rows PXRW, . . . , PXRW. Each PXRWhas photoelectrical sensing elements spanning pixel row width PRWand producing a pixel row image signal PRIS. Each PXRWis offset from PXRWby distance XOFSTand spaced from PXRWby distance SPsuch that X- and Y-extremities of (PXRW, . . . , PXRW) define IMFM. The WCISC is so configured that any image pixel sweeping through IMFM will be sensed by at least one imaging pixel row. In the presence of Y-directional relative motion between WCISC and IMFM and an external electronic imaging controller (EEIC) interfacing with the WCISC, the EEIC can extract all PRISfrom WCISC and reconstruct the AIFS.