On-focal-plane signal processing for current-mode active pixel sensors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1747-1758

  Nakamura, Junichi ^a   Pain, Bedabrata ^a   Nomoto, Tetsuo ^a   Nakamura, Tsutomu ^a   Fossum, Eric R ^a  

^a OLYMPUS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DESIGN; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS; CHARGE MODULATION DEVICES; CURRENT MODE SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0031250468     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.628832     Document Type: Article

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