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A.J.P.A.M. Theuwissen
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This article reviews nearly 60 years of solid-state image sensor evolution and identifies potential new frontiers in the field. From early work in the 1960s, through the development of charge-coupled device image sensors, to the complementary metal oxide semiconductor image senso
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This paper presents a new 2-step SAR ADC architecture for image sensors in machine vision applications. This structure effectively improves the structural problems of the image sensor caused by the area occupied by the ADC, such as linearity and temporal noise performance. In thi
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This paper presents a novel technique for dark current compensation of a CMOS image sensor (CIS) by using in-pixel temperature sensors (IPTSs) over a temperature range from −40 °C to 90 °C. The IPTS makes use of the 4T pixel as a temperature sensor. Thus, the 4T pixel has a doubl
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A column-parallel 10-bit SAR ADC for high-speed image sensors has been implemented. A fast offset calibration technique using memory is proposed to compensate for the offset mismatch, accompanied by an ADC designed for a narrow space the size of a single column pitch. The memory
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Case Study of a Global Shutter CIS--Part 1
Angular Dependency of the Light Sensitivity
This article focuses on the angular dependency of the light sensitivity of a commercially available CMOS camera with a global shutter (storage node (SG) in the charge domain) and shared pixel architecture. The angular dependency is characterized as a function of both the waveleng
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Case Study of a Global Shutter CIS--Part 2
Parasitic Light Sensitivity
This article focuses on the parasitic light sensitivity (PLS) of a commercially available CMOS camera with a global shutter (with a storage node in the charge domain) and shared pixel architecture. The PLS is characterized as a function of both the wavelength and the incident ang
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One of the fastest growing markets in the semiconductor industry is being driven by businesses in the solid-state imaging sector. An overview of the world-wide CIS (CMOS Image Sensor) market is illustrated in Figure 1.4.1. The actual CAGR (compound annual growth rate) from 2010 u
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This letter introduces a Gm-cell-based CMOS image sensor (CIS) achieving deep subelectron noise performance. The CIS presents a new compensation block and low-noise current source to improve the performance of the Gm pixel. Furthermore, an optional first-order IIR filter is imple
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This article presents in-pixel (of a CMOS image sensor (CIS) temperature sensors with improved accuracy in the spatial and the temporal domain. The goal of the temperature sensors is to be used to compensate for dark (current) fixed pattern noise (FPN) during the exposure of the
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This paper presents a CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a zoom ADC, to quantize in-pixel temperature sensors, as well as for faster readout speed of the image pixels while maintaining low quantization noise. The proposed 15 bit zoom ADC has a 4 bit Unit Capacitor Array (UCA) SAR and a
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This brief proposes a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) whose readout speed is improved by 33%, through applying a digital error correction (DEC) method, compared to an alternative without using the DEC technique. The proposed addition-only
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This paper presents a proof-of-concept CMOS image sensor (CIS) having a continuous column readout speed of 10 MHz. Each column readout chain, from the pixel output to the chip digital outputs, is composed of two cascade programmable gain amplifiers (PGAs) and a 10 bit 1.5 bit/st
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This brief proposes employing each of the classical 4 transistor (4T) pinned photodiode (PPD) CMOS image sensor (CIS) pixels, for both imaging and temperature measurement, intended for compensating the CISs' dark current, and dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU). The proposed temper
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This Letter presents an all-MOS self-referenced temperature sensor, intended for thermal compensation of dark current in CMOS image sensors (CIS). Its thermal sensing front-end is based on a self-biased nMOS pair working in the subthreshold region. Biased with ratiometric current
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This paper proposes various types of on-chip smart temperature sensors, intended for thermal compensation of dark current in CMOS image sensors (CIS). It proposes four different architectures of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS)-based and bipolar junction transistor (BJT)-based tem
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This paper presents methodologies for suppressing the spatial and the temporal noise in a CMOS image sensor (CIS). First of all, it demonstrates by using a longer-length column bias transistor, both the fixed pattern noise (FPN) and temporal noise can be suppressed. Meantime, it
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This paper analyzes and compensates for process and temperature dependency among a (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) CMOS image sensor (CIS) array. Both the analysis and compensation are supported with experimental results on the CIS’s dark cu
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This paper proposes a CMOS image sensor (CIS) whose readout speed is improved by 33%, through applying a digital error correction (DEC) method to its column-level successive approximation register (SAR) analog to digital converters (ADC), compared to an alternative without using
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In this paper, different methodologies are employed to improve the linearity performance of a prototype CMOS image sensor (CIS). First, several pixel structures, including a novel pixel design based on a capacitive trans-im
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This paper proposes an array of nMOS based temperature sensors incorporated into a CMOS image sensor (CIS) for thermal compensation of the latter. Each temperature sensor features the same area as that of an image pixel. Both the temperature and the image sensors' outputs are rea
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