Television – Camera – system and detail – Solid-state image sensor
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-20
2007-11-20
Ye, Lin (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Solid-state image sensor
C348S243000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10268449
ABSTRACT:
A method for reducing shutter latency while maintaining low dark current in the imager and minimizing energy consumption in a digital camera, the method including the steps of providing an imager operating in accumulation mode; and substantially continuous flushing of charges from the imager before capturing an exposure of an image with a time between vertical transfers greater than or equal to time between vertical transfers during normal image readout so that, if continuous flushing for a time necessary to readout substantially all rows of pixels has occurred, the exposure may be captured with substantially zero latency.
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Bouvy Raymond J.
McCarten John P.
Moberg Gregory O.
Shepherd John P.
Eastman Kodak Company
Misleh Justin P
Watkins Peyton C.
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