Object Location and Centroiding Techniques with CMOS Active Pixel Sensors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2369-2377

  Burns, Ryan D ^a   Shah, Joey ^b   Hong, Canaan ^c   Pepić, Srdjan ^d   Lee, Ji Soo ^b   Hornsey, Richard I ^e   Thomas, Paul ^f  

^a Digital Design Corporation   (United States)

^b Micron Imaging   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Topaz Technology Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor; Centroid; CMOS; Image sensor; Integrated circuit; Object location

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTODIODES; READOUT SYSTEMS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS; CENTROIDING TECHNIQUES; GAUSSIAN BRIGHT SPOT; OBJECT LOCATION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0347968284     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2003.819260     Document Type: Article

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