Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for mitigating global event power surge in image sensors
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Application No.: US17249583Application Date: 2021-03-05
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Publication No.: US11671724B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Nicholas Paul Cowley , Andrew David Talbot
- Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Scottsdale
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Tianyi He
- Main IPC: H04N25/71
- IPC: H04N25/71 ; H01L27/146 ; H01L27/148 ; H04N25/533

Abstract:
An image sensor may include a pixel array, row control circuitry, and column readout circuitry. The row control circuitry may operate the pixel array in a global shutter mode of operation. In particular, timing control circuitry may provide global timing clock signals associated with a global photodiode reset event and a global photodiode charge transfer event to row driver circuitry providing control signals to each row in the array. Each driver circuitry may include a time delay circuit that delays the global timing clock signal by different amounts across the rows. Therefore, these global events may be offset on a per-row or per-row group basis, thereby mitigating power surges associated with global events. Further, by offsetting the global photodiode reset and charge transfer events using the same delay for a given row, the same global integration time may be preserved across different rows.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220286640A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING GLOBAL EVENT POWER SURGE IN IMAGE SENSORS Public/Granted day:2022-09-08
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