Global shutter CMOS image sensor with wide dynamic range

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1032-1036

  Belenky, Alexander ^a   Fish, Alexander ^b   Spivak, Arthur ^a   Yadid Pecht, Orly ^a  

^a VLSI Systems Center   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor (APS); Global shutter imager; Wide dynamic range (WDR)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMAGE SENSORS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR; CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; LOCAL ILLUMINATION; MULTI-SAMPLING; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE (WDR);

PIXELS;

EID: 57149130151     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2007.908902     Document Type: Article

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