A 2/3-in. 9.5-Mpixel CMOS Imager With High Frame Rate and HDR Capabilities

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 130, No. 5, pp. 6–11
Abstract: This study explains the architecture and readout schemes used to achieve a 2/3-in. 9.5-Mpixel complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager, with 3.6 Gpixels/s enabling high frame-rate operation in native UHD-1/4K ultrahigh-definition (UHD) resolution and full high-dynamic range (HDR) support. The presented imager demonstrates an architecture that supports high spatial and temporal resolutions and a high output data rate. To fulfill the transfer time requirements, an innovative row addressing scheme has been developed to toggle between the different rows.
Publication Date: 2021-06-01
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2021.3072377
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2021.3072377
Author(s): Klaus Weber
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Klaus Weber is responsible for defining and presenting Grass Valley’s camera solutions and technology. This includes all the current Grass Valley (LDX) camera systems used in a wide range of broadcast applications. His experience includes numerous technical and commercial roles in broadcast cameras. He has more than 38 years of industry experience, with the past 26 years focused on various marketing and business development roles for Grass Valley’s camera factory. He is a member of SMPTE, Fernseh- und Kinotechnischen Gesellschaft (FKTG), and has been awarded a patent in the field of imaging technology. He is the author of several technical articles and white papers dealing with various camera-related technologies and topics and has also given several technical presentations at various industry events and participated in discussion panels in many different countries around the world.
Jeroen Rotte
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Jeroen Rotte graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the HZ University of Applied Sciences, Vlissingen, The Netherlands. He has worked for more than 25 years with Grass Valley, Breda, The Netherlands. He started his career working on CCD readout circuitry for both driving the imager as well as analog video processing. About 15 years ago, he was part of the team in the pioneering work to change from CCD- to CMOS imagers suitable for broadcast. He works now on the CMOS imager architecture, and the development of the imager readout & driving circuitry. He also works on imager characterization and on digital image corrections algorithms. Currently, he holds the position of Group Leader Image Sensors R&D at Grass Valley Cameras.
Keyword(s): Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS), 4K, HDR, Imagers, Pixel, Super-slow-motion (SSM)
Copyright: © 2021 SMPTE

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4K, HDR and Further Image Enhancements for Live Image Acquisition [Active]
S. Louwsma et al., “A Scalable 12b-16b Charge-Domain Multi-Slope Column ADC for HDR Imagers With 86dB DR at 1 μs Conversion Time,” Proc. 2019 Int. Image Sensor Workshop (IISW), paper 14, Jun. 2019. EXTERNAL
J. Rotte et al., “Differential Digital Double Sampling Readout Scheme for a 4T-4shared Pixel With Reduced Interconnection,” Proc. Int. Image Sensor Workshop (IISW), pp. 82-85, May 2015. EXTERNAL
K. Weber and P. Centen, “A 4K UHD 2/3-Inch CMOS Imager With Dynamic Pixel Management—An Enabler for New Format Flexibility,” presented at the SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Hollywood, CA, Oct. 2016. EXTERNAL

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