Programmable Multiresolution CMOS Active Pixel Sensor

Fossum, Eric R.; Pain, Bedabrata; Matthies, Larry; Kemeny, Sabrina; Panicacci, Roger

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Programmable Multiresolution CMOS Active Pixel Sensor

Fossum, Eric R.·Pain, Bedabrata·Matthies, Larry·Kemeny, Sabrina·Panicacci, Roger

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Abstract

CMOS active pixel sensors (APS) allow the flexibility of placing signal processing circuitry on the imaging focal plane. The multiresolution CMOS APS can perform block averaging on-chip to eliminate the off-chip software intensive image processing. This 128 x 128 APS array can be read out at any user-defined resolution by configuring a set of digital shift registers. The resolution frame rate is 30 Hz with higher rates for all other image resolutions.

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Fossum, Eric R., Pain, Bedabrata, Matthies, Larry, Kemeny, Sabrina, Panicacci, Roger. 1996-01-31. Programmable Multiresolution CMOS Active Pixel Sensor. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210003646

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