CMOS image sensors: electronic camera-on-a-chip

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1689-1698

  Fossum, Eric R ^a  

^a Photobit   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE; VIDEO CAMERAS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CMOS IMAGE SENSORS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0031249402     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.628824     Document Type: Article

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