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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Forza Silicon Corporation, Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventor:
Steven Huang, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
FORZA SILICON CORPORATION, Pasadena, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems for analog-to-digital conversion applicable to an image sensor, such as a CMOS image sensor, in which pixels can be readout non-destructively, and wherein a non-destructive pixel read may be used to provide a coarse analog-to-digital conversion such that information can be stored, and the stored information is then applied in a fine analog-to-digital conversion during a subsequent actual pixel read.