DE69131076T2 - Bildsensor - Google Patents

Bildsensor

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DE69131076T2
DE69131076T2 DE69131076T DE69131076T DE69131076T2 DE 69131076 T2 DE69131076 T2 DE 69131076T2 DE 69131076 T DE69131076 T DE 69131076T DE 69131076 T DE69131076 T DE 69131076T DE 69131076 T2 DE69131076 T2 DE 69131076T2
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image sensor
sensor
image
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Herbert Erhardt
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Eastman Kodak Co
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Eastman Kodak Co
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/14—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation
    • H01L27/144—Devices controlled by radiation
    • H01L27/146—Imager structures
    • H01L27/148—Charge coupled imagers
    • H01L27/14806—Structural or functional details thereof
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/50—Control of the SSIS exposure
    • H04N25/53—Control of the integration time
    • H04N25/533—Control of the integration time by using differing integration times for different sensor regions
    • H04N25/534—Control of the integration time by using differing integration times for different sensor regions depending on the spectral component
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/14—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation
    • H01L27/144—Devices controlled by radiation
    • H01L27/146—Imager structures
    • H01L27/148—Charge coupled imagers
    • H01L27/14825—Linear CCD imagers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H04N25/701—Line sensors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H04N25/71—Charge-coupled device [CCD] sensors; Charge-transfer registers specially adapted for CCD sensors

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Condensed Matter Physics & Semiconductors (AREA)
  • Electromagnetism (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
  • Spectroscopy & Molecular Physics (AREA)
  • Solid State Image Pick-Up Elements (AREA)
  • Color Television Image Signal Generators (AREA)
DE69131076T 1990-09-28 1991-09-25 Bildsensor Expired - Lifetime DE69131076T2 (de)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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US07/589,877 US5105264A (en) 1990-09-28 1990-09-28 Color image sensor having an optimum exposure time for each color
PCT/US1991/006906 WO1992006564A1 (en) 1990-09-28 1991-09-25 Image sensor

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DE69131076D1 DE69131076D1 (de) 1999-05-06
DE69131076T2 true DE69131076T2 (de) 1999-10-14

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US (1) US5105264A (de)
EP (1) EP0574390B1 (de)
JP (1) JP3249819B2 (de)
CA (1) CA2090235C (de)
DE (1) DE69131076T2 (de)
WO (1) WO1992006564A1 (de)

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EP0574390B1 (de) 1999-03-31
CA2090235A1 (en) 1992-03-29
JP3249819B2 (ja) 2002-01-21
DE69131076D1 (de) 1999-05-06
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