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• the present invention relates to an image matrix sensor having a plurality of individual detection structures associated with respective pixels.
• the dynamics of such a sensor is crucial to keep all the information of a scene to be observed.
• the spatiotemporal distribution of the luminance may be greater than 12OdB, which greatly exceeds the dynamic available on a conventional image sensor.
• the latter use a linear photoelectric conversion law whose operating dynamics is limited both by the maximum amplitude of the video signal and the noise level at the output of the sensor.
• EP 1 271 930 discloses a sensor whose resolution can be varied. There is no operation in solar cell mode of the photodiodes.
• Patent EP 1 354 360 discloses, for example, a CMOS individual detection structure associated with a pixel having a logarithmic response and a good image quality. This individual detection structure nonetheless has two structural defects: a high electrical consumption when a large number of these structures are assembled within a matrix to produce a sensor and the appearance of black columns on the image formed on the sensor. case of a strong point and local illumination of the scene to be observed.
• FIG. 1 shows an individual detection structure 1 y according to patent EP 1 354 360.
• This structure 1 includes therein a photodiode 3 y in photovoltaic mode (that is to say corresponding to a solar cell mode where the photodiode generates a voltage under illumination) read by an amplifier stage 4 are continuous impedance infinite comprising two MOS transistors 41 y, and 42 are the output of this amplifier 4 stage there being connected to a read bus 7 via a MOS transistor selection
• This structure also includes a switch 8 allowing it, when closed, to bypass the photodiode 3 are as described in EP 1 354 360.
• amplifier stage 4 In order to ensure stable operation of the photodiode in photovoltaic mode, amplifier stage 4 there must be maintained and running a dynamic supply of this amplifier stage creating unacceptable switching noises on the photodiode 3 y which is in a state of high impedance.
• detection structures 1 y according to FIG. 1 are assembled according to a matrix whose size is for example greater than 768 ⁇ 576 pixels, which is the standard TV resolution in Europe, the electrical consumption required to polarize the amplifier stage 4 permanently.
• y of each individual detection structure l y of the matrix can reach a value having detrimental consequences for the operation of the image sensor produced using such a matrix.
• a matrix comprising a large number of detection structures 1 y may have a parasitic capacitance 71 on the read bus 7, of significant value, which may require a higher bias current in the stage amplifier 4 y of each individual detection structure l y .
• This bias current is for example of the order of 1 ⁇ A, which for a matrix of 1000x1000 pixels corresponds to a global current is IA.
• IA global current
• Another disadvantage of an image sensor made with structures according to FIG. 1 is the risk of appearance of black columns in the image formed on this sensor when the latter acquires an image of a scene in which very intense point light sources are present, these black columns corresponding to pixels whose signal can not be read.
• the individual detection structure disclosed by the patent EP 1 354 360 may also not be optimal in terms of compactness since it requires that the transistors 41 y and 42 y of the amplifier stage 4 y on the one hand, and the selection transistor 6 will be of different type, the transistors 41 and 42 there are of the amplifier stage 4 y being for example P-channel MOS transistors and the selection transistor 6 y is an N-channel MOS transistor with a structure according to Figure 1, the output signal of the amplifier stage 4 therein indeed has a voltage too low for a P-channel MOS transistor, which would be used as selection transistor, can be unlocked.
• the individual detection structure disclosed by the patent EP 1 354 360 does not have means for storing an image.
• the progressive reading on a matrix comprising such individual detection structures creates a time shift between the beginning of reading and the end of reading, which can cause deformations of moving objects when they are observed by a sensor comprising such a matrix.
• the object of the present invention is to remedy all or part of these disadvantages and to achieve this through an image matrix sensor comprising a plurality of detection structures associated with respective pixels, each individual detection structure comprising:
• a photodiode having at least one operating range in solar cell mode
• a first amplifier stage fed continuously and receiving at input a voltage depending on the voltage of the photodiode, including in said range and, a second amplifier stage, connected to the output of the first amplifier stage, and fed differently according to that the output of the first amplifier stage is read or not.
• the first amplifier stage is continuously supplied so as to be kept in continuous operation, while the second amplifier stage is in dynamic polarization.
• the second amplifier stage can receive information from the first amplifier stage only during a given period.
• the first amplifier stage which must be permanently powered, is charged only the second amplifier stage, which allows to deliver a relatively low bias current to the first amplifier stage.
• the invention may allow the second amplifier stage to be powered only when the output of the first amplifier stage is read or when it is powered substantially only when such a reading is made.
• Each individual detection structure comprises for example a controlled switch for selectively creating a short circuit of the photodiode and simulating a dark condition of the photodiode or for maintaining the photodiode at a constant or variable preset voltage, when closed.
• the supply of the first and second amplifier stages also called “buffer amplifiers" corresponds for example to the sending of bias currents to these first and second amplifier stages.
• the value of the bias current of the first amplifier stage may be less than 100 nA, being for example between 10 and 50 nA.
• this polarization level only generates an overall consumption of 10-5OmA, against a consumption of the order of
• the second amplifier stage is dynamically biased, even a bias current of this second stage of relatively high value does not generate overall consumption for the excessive sensor, since only one line of matrix detection structures is selected during playback.
• each second amplifier stage can be biased by a bias current of the order of l ⁇ A, which corresponds to an overall consumption by the sensor of 1 mA during the reading period of a line.
• This level of polarization can make it possible to significantly increase the tolerance threshold to overexposure caused by point sources.
• Each individual detection structure may comprise a signal storage system, in particular the voltage, at the output of the first amplifier stage, the storage system possibly comprising a sampling switch between the first and second amplifier stages, for example a transistor, and means for storing the signal at the output of the first amplifier stage, for example a capacitance.
• the sampling switch may be a P-channel or N-channel MOS field effect transistor.
• the sampling switch can be used to sample the output signal of the first amplifier stage in the capacitance.
• the sampling switch of each individual detection structure can be controlled simultaneously so that sampling takes place at the same time for all the individual detection structures.
• the capacity is, for example, the input capacitance of the second amplifier stage.
• the fact of storing in the capacity of the storage system the voltage supplied by the photodiode at the output of the first amplifier stage can make it possible to reduce the time shift induced by the progressive reading and to avoid or at least attenuate the deformation of a moving object observed using the sensor.
• Such a storage system may furthermore make it possible to observe, with the aid of the sensor, short-duration illuminations, for example from a flashlamp.
• the detection structure may alternatively be devoid of a storage system as described above, for example when the application assigned to the sensor tolerates the deformations of moving objects.
• the output of the first amplifier stage is for example then directly connected to the input of the second amplifier stage, which can make it possible to obtain a more compact individual detection structure.
• the second amplifier stage is powered only when the output of the first amplifier stage, and therefore the signal acquired by the photodiode, is read.
• the second amplifier stage is fed in a first bias current in the absence of reading of the output of the first amplifier and in a second polarization current during the reading of the output of the first amplifier.
• first amplifier the first bias current being lower than the second.
• the ratio between these first and second bias currents is for example between 10 and 10,000.
• the sensor may comprise at least one transistor common to several detection structures, in particular to detection structures associated with pixels of the same column of the matrix, this transistor being arranged to bias the second amplifier stage of each of said detection structures.
• the first amplifier stage may comprise at least two field effect transistors and the second amplifier stage may comprise a field effect selection transistor and the field effect transistors of the first amplifier stage may be of the same type as the selection transistor. field effect of the second amplifier stage, which can make it possible to benefit from an individual detection structure that is simpler to manufacture.
• the invention makes it possible, for example, to use transistors of the same type to produce the first and second amplifier stages.
• the presence in the individual detection structure of two amplifying stages may make it possible to obtain a voltage sufficient to release, by a selection signal at zero volts, a selection transistor of the same type as the other transistors of the amplifier stages.
• the two field-effect transistors of the first amplifier stage and the selection transistor of the second amplifier stage are for example P-channel MOS transistors and the photodiode is for example made using a junction comprising a semiconductor substrate of type P on which is carried out an N-type diffusion.
• the structure for example comprises MOS transistors N-channel and MOS P-channel, which allows a saving of space within the individual detection structure, making it possible not to reduce the photodiode and consequently to gain in photoelectric performance.
• this transistor sampling can then be placed in the same box as the latter and be protected against light signal leakage.
• the use to realize the selection transistor of the second amplifier stage of a P-channel MOS transistor may allow the photoelectric current I pp induced in the drain and the source of the selection transistor by parasitic photodiodes to be directed in the same direction. meaning that the bias current, to further increase the bias current and reduce the risk of appearance of black pixel columns in the image formed on the sensor, especially in case of overexposure to an intense point source of light .
• the first amplifier stage may be arranged to have an input impedance equivalent to that of a gate of a MOS transistor when it is continuously supplied.
• the sensor may further comprise means for performing a reading of the photodiode when the switch controlled to selectively create a short circuit of the photodiode or to maintain it at a predetermined voltage is open and a reading of the photodiode when said switch is closed , which can compensate for the fixed spatial noise induced by the first and second amplifier stages.
• the sensor may for example comprise memory means for storing at least one of the two readings above.
• a method for reading the signal acquired by an individual detection structure associated with a pixel of an image matrix sensor, the individual detection structure comprising:
• a photodiode having at least one operating range in solar cell mode
• a first amplifier stage receiving as input a voltage dependent on the voltage of the photodiode, including in said range
• a second amplifier stage connected to the output of the first amplifier stage, in which the first amplifier stage is continuously supplied and the supply of the second amplifier stage is modified according to whether the output of the first amplifier stage is read or not.
• the power supply of the first and second amplifier stages corresponds, for example, to the sending of a bias current to these stages.
• the second amplifier stage receives for example a bias current only when the output of the first amplifier stage, and therefore the signal acquired by the photodiode, is read.
• the second amplifier stage receives a first bias current in the absence of a reading of the output of the first amplifier stage and a second bias current during the reading of the output of the first amplifier stage, the first bias current being less than the second, the ratio between these first and second polarization currents being for example between 10 and 10,000.
• Each individual detection structure may include a controlled switch for selectively creating a short circuit of the photodiode and simulating a dark condition of the photodiode or for maintaining the photodiode at a constant or variable preset voltage when closed, and a reading the signal acquired by the individual detection structure when said switch is open and a reading of the signal acquired by the individual detection structure when said switch is closed can be performed.
• Each individual detection structure may comprise a signal storage system at the output of the first amplifier stage, comprising a sampling switch and storage means, and the method may include the step of sampling the output signal of the first amplifier stage.
• amplifier stage in the storage medium for each individual detection structure, for example. This sampling can take place at the same time for all the individual detection structures.
• FIGS. 1 to 3 show examples of individual detection structures according to the teaching of patent EP 1 354 360
• FIG. 4 represents an individual detection structure according to an exemplary implementation of the invention
• FIG. 5 represents a sensor comprising a matrix of individual detection structures according to the example of FIG. 4;
• FIG. 6 is a timing diagram showing steps when reading a line of an image acquired by a sensor according to FIG. 5;
• FIG. 7 represents an individual detection structure according to another example of implementation of FIG. the invention,
• FIG. 8 represents a sensor comprising a matrix of individual detection structures according to the example of FIG. 7,
• FIG. 9 is a timing diagram representing steps during the reading of an image acquired by a sensor according to FIG. 8;
• FIG. 10 represents another exemplary embodiment of a photodiode and a switch in an individual detection structure and,
• FIG. 11 represents an exemplary control circuit of a sampling switch.
• FIG. 4 shows an individual detection structure 1 y according to a first embodiment of the invention.
• This structure of individual detection l y comprises a photodiode 3 and having at least one operating range in solar cell mode, a first and a second 4 y 5 y amplifier stage, also called “buffer amplifier” and a switch 8 y.
• the first amplifier stage 4 receives at input y the voltage induced in the photodiode 3 and when the latter is subjected to illumination 2, including solar cell guide operating range of the photodiode.
• the output of the first amplifier 4 is directly received at the input of the second amplifier stage 5 y and the output of the second amplifier stage 5 is read from a read bus 7, common to several detection structures l y associated with pixels the same column of a matrix comprising a plurality of detection structures.
• the photodiode 3 is formed there by means of a junction having a type semiconductor substrate P on which is formed a diffusion type N.
• the junction between these two types of semiconductor material forms a PN junction for photoelectric conversion.
• the switch 8 y which is in the example illustrated a N-channel MOS field effect transistor makes it possible, as described in patent EP 1 354 360, to short-circuit or not the photodiode 3 y in order to simulate an absolute darkness. .
• the gate of the transistor 8 is connected to a reset bus reset 1O 1, which allows to monitor the status of this switch 8 y.
• the first amplifier stage 4 there comprises in the example described two channel MOS field effect transistors in series it 4I and 42 are fed by a voltage V cc.
• a bias current Ibiasi is sent into the first amplifier stage 4 y .
• the transistor 42 is connected to a Vbiasi voltage which adjusts the bias current of the first amplifier stage 4 y.
• This first stage amplifier 4 presents e.g. input impedance equivalent DC to that of a MOS transistor gate.
• the second stage amplifier 5 there comprises in the example shown a first and a second field-effect transistor 51 and y 52 y that are P-channel MOS transistors
• the output of the first amplifier 4 is directly connected to the gate of the first transistor 51 is, without coupling capacitor.
• the transistor 52 plays the role of a selection transistor whose gate is connected to a control bus SEL 11 January.
• Individual sensing structure l y shown in Figure 4 further comprises a load transistor 9, the second amplifier stage 5 is located outside the individual detection of the structure and are connected to a voltage source V cc ' .
• the gate of this load transistor 9, is connected to a voltage Vbias 2 , for adjusting the additional voltage gain that is to be brought to the output voltage of the first amplifier stage 4 y .
• bias current Ibias 2 of the second stage amplifier 5 is sent to the second amplifier stage.
• the output voltage of the first amplifier stage 4 is then received at the input of the second stage amplifier 5 there at the gate of transistor 5 l y.
• the pixel associated with the individual detection structure l is read there through the second amplifier stage 5 y .
• the second stage amplifier 5 there is polarized when the pixel of the individual detection of the structure associated therewith is selected for playback. In the absence of such selection, the bias current Ibias 2 is virtually zero and the selection transistor 52 is not conducting.
• the selection transistor 52 When the pixel is selected, the selection transistor 52 is activated by means of sending an activation signal via the bus SEL H 1 and a bias current Ibias 2 for turning on this transistor 52 are in order to read the pixel is sent to the second amplifier stage 5 y .
• the second amplifier stage 5 is fed therein by a first bias current Ibias 2 'when the pixel to which the individual detection structure is associated is not selected, this bias current being insufficient to turn on the transistor 52 y .
• the selection transistor 52 is biased by a second bias current Ibias 2 ", allowing the pixel reading and as - is between 10 and 10,000.
• the selection transistor 52 and the transistors are identical to the selection transistor 52 and the transistors.
• Y 41, y 42 and y 51 are P-channel MOS transistors P.
• Ip P photocurrent induced in the photodiodes 55 are parasitic at the drain and source of the selection transistor 52 is oriented in the same meaning that the bias current Ibias 2 , which allows to slightly increase this polarization current.
• the invention is not limited to an individual detection structure as described above.
• the transistors of the first amplifier stage and the selection transistor of the second amplifier stage can be of different type, the selection transistor 52 are being for example an N-channel MOS transistor and the transistors 41 y and 42 y being P-channel MOS transistors.
• the diffusion N of the source of the transistor 8 y may be fused with the diffusion N of the photodiode 3 , as shown in FIG. 10.
• the polarity of the photodiode 3 y can also be reversed, the latter then being performed using an N type semiconductor substrate on which a P type diffusion is performed.
• the individual detection structure l y according to the invention can also comprise means making it possible to read a voltage of any polarity in the phase of evolution of the photodiode during an exposure, as according to the teaching of the application FR 2 920 590.
• Switch 8 there can be connected to a predefined potential, thereby making it possible, when the switch 8 is passing, to impose a predetermined voltage to the photodiode 3 and before a shooting.
• the switch 8 is open there, so that the photoelectric current then induced in the photodiode 3 are illuminated will discharge this voltage, in accordance with what is described with reference to Figures 3a and 3b of the application FR 2 920 590.
• the individual detection structure l y may for example comprise a capacitive coupling capacitor connecting the cathode of the photodiode 3 y and the first amplifier stage 4 y , as in the embodiment described in FIG.
• an adequate voltage is generated at the terminals of the coupling capacitor, as mentioned in FIGS. 6a to 6e of the application FR 2 920 590, by connecting the gate of transistor 41 y to a positive voltage of greater value than the threshold voltage of this transistor through a resistance of determined value so that the time constant R * C meets predefined criteria.
• this adequate voltage can be generated across the capacitance by using a point conductivity within an electrical insulator emanating for example from ionizing radiation, a tunneling effect of cold electrons or the effect of hot electrons, as described with reference to FIGS. 7a and 7b of application FR 2 920 590.
• the cathode of the photodiode 3 there may also be one of the plates of the coupling capacitor.
• An example of an image sensor 100 comprising a matrix 101 of M + 1 lines and N + 1 columns of detection structures I y according to the example of FIG. 4 and the reading will now be described with reference to FIGS. a line i of an image acquired by such a sensor, the complete reading of the image may consist of a successive reading of each line.
• the sensor 100 also comprises:
• circuit 103 enabling the reading of the photodiode 3 y of each individual detection structure l y , when the switch 8 is open therein , and when the switch 8 is closed thereto and the storage of the information read and a differentiation circuit 104 whose output corresponds to an image output of the sensor.
• the line selection circuit 102 comprises, as can be seen, a shift register 106 and is arranged to control the activation of the RAZ buses 1O 1 and SEL 11 1 specific to each line i of the matrix 101.
• Each individual detection structure l u of the matrix is connected to the buses 1O 1 and H 1 .
• the detection structures I 1 of the same column j of the matrix share a same read bus 7, as well as the same load transistor 52, second stages 5 U amplifiers, the load transistors 52, not being not shown in FIG. 5.
• each read bus 7 is connected to two switches connected in parallel 107, and 108, of the circuit 103, these switches being respectively controlled by buses 109 and 110. other end of these switches 107 ,, respectively 108 j , is connected to a first analog memory IH j , respectively to a second analog memory 112 ,.
• the set of switches 107 is controlled in closing, so that an image of the voltage at the terminals of the photodiode 3 y of a detection structure individual l y when the switch 8 is open is recorded in each memory lll j, the stored value corresponding to the signal acquired by the photodiode 3 and the fixed pattern noise and outputting, as described in EP 1,354,360.
• the circuit 103 further includes a shift register 113 and switches 114, and 115 d, respectively connected to the analog memories 11 I j and 112, and which, when passers-by are used to read in step 200, on two bus 116 and 117 the contents of the memories 11 and I j 112, associated with the same pixel column j.
• the two buses 116 and 117 are received at the input of the differentiation circuit 104 which is in this example a differential amplifier.
• the difference made by the circuit 104 makes it possible to obtain an output signal that is free of fixed spatial noise.
• FIGS 7-9 relate to an implementation variant of the invention differing from that described with reference to Figures 4 to 6 in that each structure of the individual detection system 20 therein comprises a signal storage are output of the first stage amplifier 4 y .
• Storing 2Oy system allows, in the example described, to store the output voltage of the first amplifier stage 4 and there comprises a sampling switch 21 are disposed between the output of the first amplifier stage 4 y and the input of second stage amplifier 5 y , and a capacitance 22 y .
• the sampling switch 21 is an MOS field effect transistor N-channel being different type from the MOS transistors of the first and second amplifier stages.
• the gate of this transistor 21 is connected to a bus 12 SAMP! controlling the sampling in the capacitor 22 is the output voltage value of the first amplifier stage 4 and there the drain and the source of this transistor 21 are connected to the output of the first amplifier 4 and y at the input of second stage amplifier 5 y .
• the capacitor 22 is for example constituted by the second stage input capacitor amplifier 5 therein.
• the sensor 100 shown in FIG. 8 differs from that represented in FIG. 5 by the use of components X arranged to achieve a logical combination between an output of the shift register 106 and the signals SAMP and SAMP G in order to activate via one more SAMP 12 bus! sampling: one of a line of pixels selected by the shift register 106 or on all the pixels in the matrix, that is to say according to the logic equation:
• SAMPz SAMP * SEL / + SAMP G where * and + designate logical operations "and” and "or".
• first and second memories 11 and I j 112 may be replaced by analog / digital converters at the output which are connected digital memories.
• the sampling transistor 21 y of each individual detection structure l y may be a P-channel MOS transistor. In this case and when the transistors
• 41 y , 42 y , 51 y and 52 y are also P-channel MOS transistors, the sampling transistor
• the sampling transistor 21 y is not controlled by a SAMP signal activated at zero volts but through a drive circuit 25 is capable of outputting a negative voltage, which shows an exemplary embodiment Figure 11. That transistor 21 there is a P-channel MOS transistor or N, it may be protected by a metal layer against the light.

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