A 375 × 365 high-speed 3-D range-finding image sensor using row-parallel search architecture and multisampling technique

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 444-453

  Oike, Yusuke ^a   Ikeda, Makoto ^a   Asada, Kunihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D image sensor; CMOS image sensor; High range accuracy; High speed; Light section method; Multisampling method; Range finder; Row parallel architecture

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER VISION; FEEDBACK; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANGE FINDERS; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; HIGH RANGE ACCURACY; HIGH SPEED; LIGHT-SECTION METHOD; MULTISAMPLING METHOD; ROW PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE SENSOR;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 13444249903     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.841017     Document Type: Article

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