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US 10,540,733 B2Granted
Frameless random-access image sensing
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsGary A. Ray, Bentley E. Northon
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for frameless random-access image sensing. Instructions identifying a pixel detector in an array of pixel detectors and integration instructions for the pixel detector may be received by an image detector controller. Integration by the pixel detector may be controlled as defined by the integration instructions to generate pixel data by the pixel detector. The pixel data may be read from the pixel detector.
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A method of random-access image sensing, comprising:
- receiving instructions identifying a pixel detector in an array of pixel detectors and integration instructions for the pixel detector;
- controlling integration by the pixel detector as defined by the integration instructions to generate pixel data by the pixel detector, wherein integration by each pixel detector in the array of pixel detectors is controlled individually;
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- reading the pixel data from the pixel detector.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- an image detector controller configured to receive instructions from a data processing system identifying a pixel detector in an array of pixel detectors and integration instructions for the pixel detector, control integration by the pixel detector as defined by the integration instructions to generate pixel data by the pixel detector, wherein integration by each pixel detector in the array of pixel detectors is controlled individually, and send the pixel data from the pixel detector to the data processing system.
An apparatus, comprising:
- an image detector controller configured to address an individual pixel detector in an image detector comprising an array of pixel detectors to control integration by the pixel detector and to read pixel data from the pixel detector;
- a computer interface for the image detector controller, wherein the image detector controller is configured to receive instructions for obtaining image data from the image detector from a data processing system via the computer interface and to send the image data to the data processing system via the computer interface;
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- a pixel detector readout circuit for each pixel detector in the array of pixel detectors, wherein the image detector controller is configured to control integration by the pixel detector by writing an integration value to the pixel detector readout circuit for the pixel detector.
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