WORKSHOP PAPER
A 768x576 Logarithmic Image Sensor with Photodiode in Solar Cell mode
Yang Ni1, YiMing Zhu1, Bogdan Arion1
1New Imaging Technologies SA, 1 Impasse de la Noisette, BP 426, 91370 Verrières le Buisson France

Abstract

The wide dynamic range and the contrast indexed imaging of logarithmic sensors have great interest for a large variety of applications from digital photography to automatic machine vision. This paper presents a new logarithmic pixel design using a photodiode in solar cell mode, integrated into a 768x576-pixel CMOS sensor, demonstrating ultra low fixed pattern noise, high sensitivity, and absence of image lag, with an instant dynamic range measured superior to 120dB.
Publisher: IISS (Int. Image Sensors Society)
Year: 2011
Workshop: IISW
URL: https://doi.org/10.60928/8mrr-x47f
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Keywords

Logarithmic Image Sensor, Solar Cell Mode Photodiode, High Dynamic Range,

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