Multimode photosensor
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsErez Tadmor, Yair Sharf, Giora Yahav, Amir Nevet, David Cohen
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Abstract
A multimode interline charge coupled device having an array of light sensitive pixels, each configured to accumulate photocharge responsive to light incident on the pixel, and a controller configured to allocate a first portion of the pixels to accumulate photocharge responsive to light from a scene during a plurality of exposure periods and allocate a second portion of the pixels to store photocharge accumulated by pixels in the first portion to provide a plurality of images of the scene greater than two.
Claims20
A multimode interline charge coupled device (MUMIT-CCD) photosensor operable to image a scene, the MUMIT-CCD comprising:
- an array of light sensitive pixels each configured to accumulate photocharge responsive to light incident on the pixel;
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- a controller configured to operate the array in a partition mode in which the controller allocates a first portion of the pixels in the array pixels to accumulate photocharge for a first image and simultaneously store photocharge for a second image of a scene responsive to light from the scene incident on the array during a plurality of exposure periods and allocates a second portion of the pixels in the array to store photocharge accumulated by pixels in the first portion to provide a plurality of images of the scene greater than two.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.