A 3.9-μm pixel pitch VGA format 10-b digital output CMOS image sensor with 1.5 transistor/pixel

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2417-2425

  Takahashi, Hidekazu ^a   Kinoshita, Masakuni ^a   Morita, Kazumichi ^a   Shirai, Takahiro ^a   Sato, Toshiaki ^a   Kimura, Takayuki ^a   Yuzurihara, Hiroshi ^a   Inoue, Shunsuke ^a   Matsumoto, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a CANON INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

CMOS image sensors; Modulation floating diffusion; Sharing floating diffusion amplifier; Small pixels

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SAMPLING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSISTORS;

CMOS IMAGE SENSORS; MODULATION FLOATING DIFFUSION; SHARING FLOATING DIFFUSION AMPLIFIERS; SMALL PIXELS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 10444252536     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.837087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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