Television – Camera – system and detail – Combined image signal generator and general image signal...
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-21
2006-03-21
Vu, Ngoc-Yen (Department: 2612)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Combined image signal generator and general image signal...
C348S250000
Reexamination Certificate
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07015960
ABSTRACT:
An image sensor that has a temperature sensor. The temperature sensor senses the temperature of a pixel array of the image sensor. The sensed temperature is used to scale a dark frame image generated by the pixel array. The scaled dark frame image is subtracted from a light image frame generated by the pixel array. The scaled dark image frame compensates for temperature variations in the pixel array. The scaled dark image frame may be generated by multiplying the dark frame by a scale factor(s). The scale factor may be computed from an equation or determined from a look-up table. The equation or look-up table may compensate for thermal gradients across the pixel.
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Candela Microsystems, Inc.
Hannett James M.
Irell & Manella LLP
Vu Ngoc-Yen
Yorks, Esq. Ben J.
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