An adaptive multiple-reset CMOS wide dynamic range imager for automotive vision applications

IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 614-619

  Hertel, Dirk ^a,b   Betts, Andrew ^b   Hicks, Rich ^b   Ten Brinke, Machiel ^c  

^a Sensata Technologies

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c Holland BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE SENSORS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROAD AND STREET MARKINGS; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIGNALING; TECHNOLOGY;

ACTIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS; AND MODELS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; COLOR INFORMATIONS; DETECTABILITY; DETECTION CAPABILITIES; DETECTION RELIABILITIES; DYNAMIC RANGES; EXPOSURE PERIODS; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; IMAGE INFORMATIONS; LANE MARKINGS; LOCAL CONTRASTS; LOGARITHMIC RESPONSES; LOW COSTS; LUMINANCE RATIOS; MODEL-BASED; MULTIPLE EXPOSURES; RESPONSE CURVES; SENSOR RESPONSES; SIGNAL LIGHTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; TRAFFIC SCENES; VISION APPLICATIONS; VISION SENSING; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGES;

VEHICLES;

EID: 57749179525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVS.2008.4621212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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