Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Unit cells with avalanche photodiode detectors
- Patent Title (中): 具有雪崩光电二极管检测器的单元电池
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Application No.: US13922912Application Date: 2013-06-20
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Publication No.: US08946640B2Publication Date: 2015-02-03
- Inventor: James T. Woolaway , John D. Schlesselmann
- Applicant: FLIR Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US OR Wilsonville
- Assignee: FLIR Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: FLIR Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OR Wilsonville
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: G01J5/02
- IPC: G01J5/02 ; G01J1/46 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/363 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
Various techniques are disclosed for providing reference signals to image detectors in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. For example, in one or more embodiments, switched capacitors may be used to provide bias voltages to individual unit cells of a focal plane array such that the bias voltages are held by the unit cells over one or more integration periods while the unit cells are decoupled from an input line. As a result, the bias voltages may be free from noise incident on the input line and thus may more accurately bias the individual unit cells.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130277561A1 UNIT CELLS WITH AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE DETECTORS Public/Granted day:2013-10-24
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