An improved BJT-based silicon retina with tunable image smoothing capability

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 241-248

  Wu, Chung Yu ^a,b   Jiang, Hsin Chin ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive smoothing function; BJT smoothing network; BJT based silicon retina; CMOS smart sensor; Tunable smooth area; VLSI

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER VISION; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; IMAGE SENSORS;

SILICON RETINA CHIPS; SMART SENSORS; TUNABLE SMOOTH AREAS;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032649219     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.766751     Document Type: Article

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