An electronic-calibration scheme for logarithmic CMOS pixels

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 950-956

  Choubey, Bhaskar ^a,b   Aoyoma, Satoshi ^c   Otim, Stephen ^a,b   Joseph, Dileepan ^a,d   Collins, Steve ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CMOS imagers; Contrast threshold; Electronic calibration; Fixed pattern noise (FPN); Gain correction; Logarithmic pixels; Model based calibration; Subthreshold operation; Wide dynamic range pixels

Indexed keywords

CMOS IMAGERS; CONTRAST THRESHOLD; ELECTRONIC CALIBRATION; FIXED PATTERN NOISE (FPN); GAIN CORRECTION; LOGARITHMIC PIXELS; MODEL-BASED CALIBRATIONS; SUBTHRESHOLD OPERATIONS; WIDE DYNAMIC-RANGE PIXELS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; READOUT SYSTEMS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33746868366     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.877983     Document Type: Article

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