Reset driver circuit disposed on the same substrate as the image sensor
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorChristopher Parks
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Abstract
A charge-coupled device for forming an electronic representation of an image from incident light, the charge-coupled device includes a substrate of a first type; a photosensitive area of a second type disposed in the substrate for receiving the incident light which is converted to a charge packet; a transfer mechanism for activating transfer of the charge packet through the charge-coupled device; an output mechanism for receiving the transferred charge packet; a reset operator for resetting the output mechanism to a charge voltage; and a logical element disposed on the substrate that inputs a gate waveform to the reset operator for activating the resetting operation of the reset operator.
Claims11
A charge-coupled device for forming an electronic representation of an image from incident light, the charge-coupled device comprising:
- (a) a substrate of a first type;
- (b) a photosensitive area of a second type disposed in the substrate for receiving the incident light that is converted to a charge packet;
- (c) a transfer mechanism for activating transfer of the charge packet through the charge-coupled device;
- (d) an output mechanism for receiving the transferred charge packet;
- (e) a reset operator for resetting the output mechanism to a charge voltage;
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- (f) a logical element disposed on the substrate that inputs a gate waveform to the reset operator for activating the resetting operation of the reset operator.
A digital camera for capturing an image, the digital camera comprising:
- (a) a charge-coupled device for forming an electronic representation of an image from incident light;
- (b) a substrate of a first type;
- (c) a photosensitive area of a second type disposed in the substrate for receiving the incident light that is converted to a charge packet;
- (d) a transfer mechanism for activating transfer of the charge packet through the charge-coupled device;
- (e) an output mechanism for receiving the transferred charge packet;
- (f) a reset operator for resetting the output mechanism to a charge level;
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- (g) a logical element disposed on the substrate that inputs a gate waveform to the reset operator for activating the resetting operation of the reset operator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.