An ultra-low power operating technique for mega-pixels current-mediated CMOS imagers

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 46-53

  Boussaid, Farid ^a   Bermak, Amine ^b   Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Elec and Electron Eng Dept   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

CMOS imagers; Current mediated pixel; Electronic shutter; Ultra low power

Indexed keywords

CAMERA SHUTTERS; CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; IMAGE SENSORS; INTEGRATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CMOS IMAGER; DYNAMIC CURRENT MIRROR; ELECTRONIC SHUTTER; ON-CHIP DIGITAL SHUTTER; ULTRA-LOW POWER;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1942455418     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2004.1277840     Document Type: Article

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