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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Commissariat À L'énergie Atomique ET Aux Énergies Alternatives, Paris, FR;
Inventor:
Assim Boukhayma, Grenoble, FR;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/374 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/3559 (2013.01); H04N 5/3575 (2013.01); H04N 5/369 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/3745 (2013.01);
Abstract
A CMOS image sensor including at least one pixel and one circuit arranged to receive, on a first node of the circuit, an analog signal representative of the luminosity level received by the pixel, the circuit being capable of successively acquiring 2samples of said signal, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1, and of delivering, on a second node of the circuit, an analog signal having a value equal to the average of the values of said samples, without generating an intermediate signal having a value greater than the value of the largest acquired sample.