A vision sensor with on-pixel ADC and in-built light adaptation mechanism

Microelectronics Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1091-1096

  Bermak, Amine ^a   Bouzerdoum, Abdessellam ^a   Eshraghian, Kamran ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CMOS imagers; CMOS vision sensors; Light adaptation; Pulse frequency modulation; VLSI

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE SENSORS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTODETECTORS; PULSE TIME MODULATION;

DIGITAL VISION SENSORS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 0036897127     PISSN: 00262692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-2692(02)00114-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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