A digital pixel sensor array with programmable dynamic range

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2591-2601

  Kitchen, Alistair ^a   Bermak, Amine ^b   Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam ^c  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

CMOS imager; Digital pixel sensor (DPS); Self resetting asynchronous pixel

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTODIODES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC RANGE; DIGITAL PIXEL SENSOR ARRAY; IMAGE CAPTURE; PROGRAMMABLE PIXEL RESPONSE; SELF-RESETTING ASYNCHRONOUS PIXEL; STATIC MEMORY;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 29244483751     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.859698     Document Type: Article

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