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US08446502B2 Time domain multiplexing for imaging using time delay and integration sensors 有权
使用时间延迟和集成传感器进行成像的时域复用

  • Patent Title: Time domain multiplexing for imaging using time delay and integration sensors
  • Patent Title (中): 使用时间延迟和集成传感器进行成像的时域复用
  • Application No.: US13255285
    Application Date: 2010-03-08
  • Publication No.: US08446502B2
    Publication Date: 2013-05-21
  • Inventor: Erik Rene Kieft
  • Applicant: Erik Rene Kieft
  • Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
  • Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
  • Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
  • Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
  • Priority: EP09305221 20090310
  • International Application: PCT/IB2010/050978 WO 20100308
  • International Announcement: WO2010/103448 WO 20100916
  • Main IPC: H04N3/14
  • IPC: H04N3/14 H04N5/228 H01L27/00
Time domain multiplexing for imaging using time delay and integration sensors
Abstract:
A time delay integration (TDI) sensor (22) comprises a sequence of cells (42, 44, 42, 44) numbered 1 to N. The TDI sensor is configured for transferring a charge from the cell numbered 1 via the cells numbered 2 to N−1 to the cell numbered N. Each cell (42; 44) in the sequence of cells is either sensitive or insensitive in the sense that when the TDI sensor (22) is evenly illuminated by light (46) having a first spectrum, the intensity of the light (46) incident on any of the insensitive cells (44) is at most 90% of the intensity of the light (46) incident on any of the sensitive cells (42). The sequence of cells (42, 44, 42, 44) comprises, in this order: a first sensitive cell (42), at least one insensitive cell (44), and a second sensitive cell (42). An imaging system comprising a TDI sensor and a method of imaging an object are also disclosed.
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