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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2010
Erik Rene Kieft, Eindhoven, NL;
Erik Rene Kieft, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A time delay integration (TDI) sensor () comprises a sequence of cells () numbered 1 to N. The TDI sensor is configured for transferring a charge from the cell numbered 1 via the cells numbered 2 to N−1 to the cell numbered N. Each cell () in the sequence of cells is either sensitive or insensitive in the sense that when the TDI sensor () is evenly illuminated by light () having a first spectrum, the intensity of the light () incident on any of the insensitive cells () is at most 90% of the intensity of the light () incident on any of the sensitive cells (). The sequence of cells () comprises, in this order: a first sensitive cell (), at least one insensitive cell (), and a second sensitive cell (). An imaging system comprising a TDI sensor and a method of imaging an object are also disclosed.