Television – Camera – system and detail – Solid-state image sensor
Patent
1992-09-17
1994-08-30
Mancuso, Joseph
Television
Camera, system and detail
Solid-state image sensor
257214, 348306, 348299, H04N 314, H04N 5335
Patent
active
053432975
ABSTRACT:
In an array of charge injection device (CID) detectors, integer amplification is incorporated into each respective detector of the array. The amplifier for each CID detector in the array performs multiple nondestructive readouts. This provides a gain of N amplification of the signal charge in that detector wherein the signal charge is accurately replicated in a separate charge storage well defined by a magnitude capacitor coupled to the detector. Thus, at the end of the readout process, this separate well contains charge equal to N times the signal charge, N being the number of nondestructive readout cycles in the readout process.
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Michon Gerald J.
Tiemann Jerome J.
Tomlinson, Jr. Harold W.
Breedlove Jill M.
General Electric Company
Greening Wendy R.
Mancuso Joseph
Snyder Marvin
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