Space-variant nonorthogonal structure CMOS image sensor design

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 842-849

  Pardo, Fernando ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Dierickx, Bart ^b,e,g   Scheffer, Danny ^b,e,h  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e CMOS Device Research Group   (Belgium)

^f IMEC ^*  (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^h EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CMOS image sensors; Log polar mapping; Nonorthogonal layout shapes

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CARTESIAN CAMERAS; CMOS IMAGE SENSORS; LOG POLAR MAPPING;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0032096880     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.678644     Document Type: Article

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