A wide dynamic range CMOS imager with extended shunting inhibition image processing capabilities

ISCAS 2001 - 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 620-623

  Boussaid, Farid ^a   Bermak, Amine ^a   Bouzerdoum, Abdesselanm ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; CMOS IMAGERS; CONTROL MECHANISM; IMPORTANT FEATURES; MIXED MODE VLSI; PROCESSING CAPABILITY; VISION MODEL; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

EDGE DETECTION; VLSI CIRCUITS; GAIN CONTROL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGERS; SHUNTING INHIBITION;

EID: 0035019019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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