Television – Camera – system and detail – Solid-state image sensor
Patent
1992-08-06
1994-10-11
Mancuso, Joseph
Television
Camera, system and detail
Solid-state image sensor
348315, H04N 314
Patent
active
053551656
ABSTRACT:
Circuits and systems embodying the invention include an image sensor comprising an array of "M" photo sensing elements arranged in "R" rows and "C" columns, where R and C are integers greater than one and R times C is equal to M. Coupled to each one of the photo sensing elements is a storage register functioning as a local memory, with each storage register comprising N storage elements, where N may range from a few to several hundred (or even several thousand) storage elements. Each photo sensing element is coupled to its associated N storage elements for selectively enabling the high speed transfer of photo information from each photo sensing element to its associated N storage elements during a photo data acquisition phase. The N storage elements associated with each photosensing element function as a local memory enabling up to "N" frames of information to be captured and transferred at a high frame rate from the photosensing element to the storage elements during image (photo) sensing and the storage of the "N" frames of information until the subsequent read-out of the stored information. The registers are preferably formed using charge coupled devices (CCD's). The N storage elements of each register may be arranged in a purely serial format or in a serial-parallel format or arranged like an X-Y memory array.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4833539 (1989-05-01), Berger
patent: 5148013 (1992-09-01), Yamada
patent: 5210613 (1993-05-01), Lee
Kosonocky Walter F.
Lowrance John L.
Greening Wendy R.
Mancuso Joseph
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Princeton Scientific Instruments Inc.
Schanzer Henry I.
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