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78-1803: The ISOCELL CMOS camera sensors are a family of sensors produced by Samsung and available for purchase by other companies. They are used in a wide variety of products including mobile phones , computers and digital cameras . These sensors use one of the following pixel type technologies: These sensors can be configured with one of the following chroma technologies: (Part Number) Release date (bits) Optical format (or mm) (S5KHP9) 2024.06.27 200 MP 8K@30 fps 4K@120 fps FHD@480 fps (S5KGNJ) 2024.06.27 50 MP 8K@30 fps 4K@120 fps FHD@480 fps (S5KJN5) 2024.06.27 50 MP 4K@60 fps FHD@240 fps 50 MP Video: 8K@30 fps 4K@120 fps FHD@240 fps Rear : Google Pixel 8 Google Pixel 8 Pro Google Pixel 9 Google Pixel 9 Pro Google Pixel 9 Pro XL (S5KHP2) 2023.01.17 200 MP Video: 8K@30 fps 4K@120 fps Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra 2022.10.20 200 MP Video: 8K@30 fps 4K@120 fps Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro+ 200 MP Video: 8K@30 fps 4K@120 fps Honor 90 Pro Honor 90 Realme 11 Pro+ 200 Mp Video: 8K@30 fps Xiaomi 12T Pro Infinix Zero Ultra 108 Mp Video: 8K@24 fps Infinix Note 12 Pro Infinix Note 12 VIP Motorola Moto G72 Oppo A1 Pro Realme 9 4G Realme 10 Pro Realme 10 Pro+ Redmi K50 Ultra Xiaomi 12T Samsung Galaxy M53 108 Mp Video: 8K@30 fps Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 108 Mp Video: 8K@24 fps 108 Mp Video: 6016 x 3384 @ 30 fps 108 Mp Video: 8K@24 fps Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra (S5KGWB) 2021.12.06 64 Mp Tecno Camon 19 Pro 64 Mp Active pixel sensor CMOS sensors emerged as an alternative to charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensors and eventually outsold them by

156-423: A Johnson–Nyquist noise on the photodiode of V n 2 = k T / C {\displaystyle V_{n}^{2}=kT/C} or N e = k T C q {\displaystyle N_{e}={\frac {\sqrt {kTC}}{q}}} , but prevents image lag, sometimes a desirable tradeoff. One way to use hard reset is replace M rst with a p-type transistor and invert

234-421: A film speed of ISO 4 million exist. Since a CMOS sensor typically captures a row at a time within approximately 1/60 or 1/50 of a second (depending on refresh rate) it may result in a " rolling shutter " effect, where the image is skewed (tilted to the left or right, depending on the direction of camera or subject movement). For example, when tracking a car moving at high speed, the car will not be distorted but

312-430: A floating diffusion, and the so-called 4T cell consisting of four CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor ) transistors , including a transfer gate , reset gate, selection gate and source-follower readout transistor. The pinned photodiode was originally used in interline transfer CCDs due to its low dark current and good blue response, and when coupled with the transfer gate, allows complete charge transfer from

390-427: A light table to make them transparent, and slide one across the other until their images line up. The amount that the edges of one photograph overhang the other represents the offset between the images, and in the case of an optical computer mouse the distance it has moved. Optical mice capture one thousand successive images or more per second. Depending on how fast the mouse is moving, each image will be offset from

468-410: A "Darkfield" laser sensor. This however has little to do with dark field illumination as used by microscopes; according to Logitech's description it uses a second laser from a different direction for better illumination if it detects low contrast. Manufacturers often engineer their optical mice—especially battery-powered wireless models—to save power when possible. To do this, the mouse dims or blinks

546-429: A CMOS sensor is that it is typically less expensive to produce than a CCD sensor, as the image capturing and image sensing elements can be combined onto the same IC, with simpler construction required. A CMOS sensor also typically has better control of blooming (that is, of bleeding of photo-charge from an over-exposed pixel into other nearby pixels). In three-sensor camera systems that use separate sensors to resolve

624-502: A buffer (specifically, a source follower ), an amplifier which allows the pixel voltage to be observed without removing the accumulated charge. Its power supply, V DD , is typically tied to the power supply of the reset transistor V RST . The select transistor, M sel , allows a single row of the pixel array to be read by the read-out electronics. Other innovations of the pixels such as 5T and 6T pixels also exist. By adding extra transistors, functions such as global shutter, as opposed to

702-399: A filter for the layer below it shifting the spectrum of absorbed light in successive layers. By deconvolving the response of each layered detector, red, green, and blue signals can be reconstructed. A typical two-dimensional array of pixels is organized into rows and columns. Pixels in a given row share reset lines, so that a whole row is reset at a time. The row select lines of each pixel in

780-490: A four-quadrant infrared sensor to detect grid lines printed with infrared absorbing ink on a special metallic surface. Predictive algorithms in the CPU of the mouse calculated the speed and direction over the grid. The other type, invented by Richard F. Lyon of Xerox, used a 16-pixel visible-light image sensor with integrated motion detection on the same n‑type ( 5   μm ) MOS integrated circuit chip, and tracked

858-414: A grazing angle by a light emitting diode, cast distinct shadows that resemble a hilly terrain lit at sunset. Images of these surfaces are captured in continuous succession and compared with each other to determine how far the mouse has moved. To understand how optical flow is used in optical mice, imagine two photographs of the same object except slightly offset from each other. Place both photographs on

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936-489: A high-breakdown voltage up to ~30-120V is necessary. Such devices are not used for high-voltage switching though. HV-CMOS are typically implemented by ~10 μm deep n-doped depletion zone (n-well) of a transistor on a p-type wafer substrate. APS pixels solve the speed and scalability issues of the passive-pixel sensor. They generally consume less power than CCDs, have less image lag, and require less specialized manufacturing facilities. Unlike CCDs, APS sensors can combine

1014-610: A laser mouse with their Sun SPARCstation servers and workstations. However, laser mice did not enter the mainstream consumer market until 2004, following the development by a team at Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto, led by Doug Baney of a laser-based mouse based on a 850 nm VCSEL that offered a 20X improvement in tracking performance. Tong Xie, Marshall T. Depue, and Douglas M. Baney were awarded US patents 7,116,427 and 7,321,359 for their work on low power consumption broad navigability VCSEL-based consumer mice. Paul Machin at Logitech , in partnership with Agilent Technologies introduced

1092-552: A previous frame remain in future frames, i.e. the pixel is not fully reset. The voltage noise variance in a soft-reset (gate-voltage regulated) pixel is V n 2 = k T / 2 C {\displaystyle V_{n}^{2}=kT/2C} , but image lag and fixed pattern noise may be problematic. In rms electrons, the noise is N e = k T C / 2 q {\displaystyle N_{e}={\frac {\sqrt {kTC/2}}{q}}} . Hard reset The pixel via hard reset results in

1170-465: A research team including Paul K. Weimer , W.S. Pike and G. Sadasiv in 1969 proposed a solid-state image sensor with scanning circuits using thin-film transistors (TFTs), with photoconductive film used for the photodetector . A low-resolution "mostly digital" N-channel MOSFET (NMOS) imager with intra-pixel amplification, for an optical mouse application, was demonstrated by Richard F. Lyon in 1981. Another type of image sensor technology that

1248-414: A row are tied together as well. The outputs of each pixel in any given column are tied together. Since only one row is selected at a given time, no competition for the output line occurs. Further amplifier circuitry is typically on a column basis. The size of the pixel sensor is often given in height and width, but also in the optical format . There are two types of active-pixel sensor (APS) structures,

1326-503: A rubberized ball. Thus, the primary distinction of “optical mice” is not their use of optics, but their complete lack of moving parts to track mouse movement, instead employing an entirely solid-state system. The first two optical mice, first demonstrated by two independent inventors in December 1980, had different basic designs: One of these, invented by Steve Kirsch of MIT and Mouse Systems Corporation , used an infrared LED and

1404-430: A soft reset is done, causing a low noise reset without adding any lag. Pseudo-flash reset requires separating V RST from V DD , while the other two techniques add more complicated column circuitry. Specifically, pseudo-flash reset and hard-to-soft reset both add transistors between the pixel power supplies and the actual V DD . The result is lower headroom, without affecting fill factor. A more radical pixel design

1482-612: A tiny MOS capacitor , which became the basic building block of the charge-coupled device (CCD), which they invented in 1969. An issue with CCD technology was its need for nearly perfect charge transfer in read out, which, "makes their radiation [tolerance?] 'soft', difficult to use under low light conditions, difficult to manufacture in large array sizes, difficult to integrate with on-chip electronics , difficult to use at low temperatures, difficult to use at high frame rates , and difficult to manufacture in non- silicon materials that extend wavelength response." At RCA Laboratories ,

1560-419: A tiny low-resolution video camera) to take successive images of the surface on which the mouse operates. As computing power grew cheaper, it became possible to embed more powerful special-purpose image-processing chips in the mouse itself. This advance enabled the mouse to detect relative motion on a wide variety of surfaces, translating the movement of the mouse into the movement of the cursor and eliminating

1638-526: A variety of applications, including low-cost cameras, PC cameras , fax , multimedia , security , surveillance , and videophones . The video industry switched to CMOS cameras with the advent of high-definition video (HD video), as the large number of pixels would require significantly higher power consumption with CCD sensors, which would overheat and drain batteries. Sony in 2007 commercialized CMOS sensors with an original column A/D conversion circuit, for fast, low-noise performance, followed in 2009 by

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1716-419: A welcome improvement over mechanical mice, which would pick up dirt, track capriciously, invite rough handling, and need to be taken apart and cleaned frequently. Other manufacturers soon followed Microsoft's lead, including Apple for their Pro Mouse , using components manufactured by Agilent (once they spun off from HP), and over the next several years mechanical mice became obsolete. The technology underlying

1794-473: A well-controlled stable semiconductor manufacturing process and was the baseline process for almost all logic and microprocessors . There was a resurgence in the use of passive-pixel sensors for low-end imaging applications, while active-pixel sensors began being used for low-resolution high-function applications such as retina simulation and high-energy particle detectors. However, CCDs continued to have much lower temporal noise and fixed-pattern noise and were

1872-458: Is a photodetector structure with low lag , low noise , high quantum efficiency and low dark current . The new photodetector structure invented at NEC was given the name "pinned photodiode" (PPD) by B.C. Burkey at Kodak in 1984. In 1987, the PPD began to be incorporated into most CCD sensors, becoming a fixture in consumer electronic video cameras and then digital still cameras . Since then,

1950-401: Is classified, but they were in use by the mid-1980s. A key element of the modern CMOS sensor is the pinned photodiode (PPD). It was invented by Nobukazu Teranishi , Hiromitsu Shiraki and Yasuo Ishihara at NEC in 1980, and then publicly reported by Teranishi and Ishihara with A. Kohono, E. Oda and K. Arai in 1982, with the addition of an anti- blooming structure. The pinned photodiode

2028-474: Is explained in an interview with one of its inventors made by the Computer History Museum . Though not commonly referred to as optical mice, nearly all mechanical mice tracked movement using LEDs and photodiodes to detect when beams of infrared light did and didn't pass through holes in a pair of incremental rotary encoder wheels (one for left/right, another for forward/back), driven by

2106-441: Is important that the active circuitry in a pixel take up as little space as possible to allow more room for the photodetector. High transistor count hurts fill factor, that is, the percentage of the pixel area that is sensitive to light. Pixel size can be traded for desirable qualities such as noise reduction or reduced image lag. Noise is a measure of the accuracy with which the incident light can be measured. Lag occurs when traces of

2184-641: Is in its infancy and may never become reality due to the non necessary complexity that is needed to capture an image Boyd Fowler of OmniVision is known for his work in CMOS image sensor development. His contributions include the first digital-pixel CMOS image sensor in 1994; the first scientific linear CMOS image sensor with single-electron RMS read noise in 2003; the first multi-megapixel scientific area CMOS image sensor with simultaneous high dynamic range (86 dB), fast readout (100 frames/second) and ultra-low read noise (1.2e- RMS) (sCMOS) in 2010. He also patented

2262-506: Is necessary to have fewer on-pixel TFTs to maintain image resolution and quality at an acceptable level. A two-transistor APS/PPS architecture has been shown to be promising for APS using amorphous silicon TFTs. In the two-transistor APS architecture on the right, T AMP is used as a switched-amplifier integrating functions of both M sf and M sel in the three-transistor APS. This results in reduced transistor counts per pixel, as well as increased pixel transconductance gain. Here, C pix

2340-514: Is related to the APS is the hybrid infrared focal plane array (IRFPA), designed to operate at cryogenic temperatures in the infrared spectrum . The devices are two chips that are put together like a sandwich: one chip contains detector elements made in InGaAs or HgCdTe , and the other chip is typically made of silicon and is used to read out the photodetectors. The exact date of origin of these devices

2418-417: Is the active-reset pixel. Active reset can result in much lower noise levels. The tradeoff is a complicated reset scheme, as well as either a much larger pixel or extra column-level circuitry. Optical mouse An optical mouse is a computer mouse which uses a miniature camera and digital image processing to detect movement relative to a surface. Variations of the optical mouse have largely replaced

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2496-459: Is the pixel storage capacitance, and it is also used to capacitively couple the addressing pulse of the "Read" to the gate of T AMP for ON-OFF switching. Such pixel readout circuits work best with low capacitance photoconductor detectors such as amorphous selenium . Many different pixel designs have been proposed and fabricated. The standard pixel uses the fewest wires and the fewest, most tightly packed transistors possible for an active pixel. It

2574-547: The Logitech G5 and the Razer Copperhead. Unlike mechanical mice, whose tracking mechanisms can become clogged with lint, optical mice have no moving parts (besides buttons and scroll wheels); therefore, they do not require maintenance other than removing debris that might collect under the light emitter. However, they generally cannot track on glossy and transparent surfaces, including some mouse-pads, causing

2652-533: The 1980s to early 1990s. The first MOS APS was fabricated by Tsutomu Nakamura's team at Olympus in 1985. The term active pixel sensor (APS) was coined by Nakamura while working on the CMD active-pixel sensor at Olympus. The CMD imager had a vertical APS structure, which increases fill-factor (or reduces pixel size) by storing the signal charge under an output NMOS transistor. Other Japanese semiconductor companies soon followed with their own active pixel sensors during

2730-564: The 1990s at HP Laboratories. In 1992 William Holland was awarded US Patent 5,089,712 and John Ertel, William Holland, Kent Vincent, Rueiming Jamp, and Richard Baldwin were awarded US Patent 5,149,980 for measuring linear paper advance in a printer by correlating images of paper fibers. Ross R. Allen, David Beard, Mark T. Smith, and Barclay J. Tullis were awarded US Patents 5,578,813 (1996) and 5,644,139 (1997) for 2-dimensional optical navigational (i.e., position measurement) principles based on detecting and correlating microscopic, inherent features of

2808-483: The CMOS back-illuminated sensor (BI sensor), with twice the sensitivity of conventional image sensors. CMOS sensors went on to have a significant cultural impact, leading to the mass proliferation of digital cameras and camera phones , which bolstered the rise of social media and selfie culture, and impacted social and political movements around the world. By 2007, sales of CMOS active-pixel sensors had surpassed CCD sensors, with CMOS sensors accounting for 54% of

2886-502: The Logitech V450 848 nm laser mouse, are capable of functioning on two AA batteries for a full year, due to the low power requirements of the infrared laser. Mice designed for use where low latency and high responsiveness are important, such as in playing video games , may omit power-saving features and require a wired connection to improve performance. Examples of mice which sacrifice power-saving in favor of performance are

2964-473: The PPD has been used in nearly all CCD sensors and then CMOS sensors. The precursor to the APS was the passive-pixel sensor (PPS), a type of photodiode array (PDA). A passive-pixel sensor consists of passive pixels which are read out without amplification , with each pixel consisting of a photodiode and a MOSFET switch. In a photodiode array, pixels contain a p-n junction , integrated capacitor , and MOSFETs as selection transistors . A photodiode array

3042-670: The Xerox STAR office computer used an inverted sensor chip packaging approach patented by Lisa M. Williams and Robert S. Cherry of the Xerox Microelectronics Center. The Mouse Systems (Kirsch) design was commercialised and sold in PC compatible form by the company itself alongside variants rebranded for OEM use with Sun Microsystems workstations and by Data General . Modern surface-independent optical mice work by using an optoelectronic sensor (essentially,

3120-478: The advantage of visual feedback to the user of the cursor position on the computer display. In 2002, Gary Gordon , Derek Knee, Rajeev Badyal and Jason Hartlove were awarded US Patent 6,433,780 for an optical computer mouse that measured position using image correlation. Some small trackpads (such as those on Blackberry smartphones) work like an optical mouse. Optical mice often used light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for illumination when first popularized. The color of

3198-511: The background will appear to be tilted. A frame-transfer CCD sensor or "global shutter" CMOS sensor does not have this problem; instead it captures the entire image at once into a frame store. A long-standing advantage of CCD sensors has been their capability for capturing images with lower noise . With improvements in CMOS technology, this advantage has closed as of 2020, with modern CMOS sensors available capable of outperforming CCD sensors. The active circuitry in CMOS pixels takes some area on

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3276-407: The cursor to drift unpredictably during operation. Mice with less image-processing power also have problems tracking fast movement, whereas some high-quality mice can track faster than 2 m/s . Some models of laser mouse can track on glossy and transparent surfaces, and have a much higher sensitivity. As of 2006 mechanical mice had lower average power requirements than their optical counterparts;

3354-459: The dominant technology for consumer applications such as camcorders as well as for broadcast cameras , where they were displacing video camera tubes . In 1993, the first practical APS to be successfully fabricated outside of Japan was developed at NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which fabricated a CMOS compatible APS. It had a lateral APS structure similar to the Toshiba sensor, but

3432-532: The early 1990s, American companies began developing practical MOS active pixel sensors. In 1991, Texas Instruments developed the bulk CMD (BCMD) sensor, which was fabricated at the company's Japanese branch and had a vertical APS structure similar to the Olympus CMD sensor, but was more complex and used PMOS rather than NMOS transistors. By the late 1980s to early 1990s, the CMOS process was well-established as

3510-516: The field of image sensors. One of them is the quanta image sensor (QIS), which might be a paradigm shift in the way we collect images in a camera. In the QIS, the goal is to count every photon that strikes the image sensor, and to provide resolution of less than 1 million to 1 billion or more specialized photoelements (called jots) per sensor, and to read out jot bit planes hundreds or thousands of times per second resulting in terabits/sec of data. The QIS idea

3588-549: The first CMOS image sensor for inter-oral dental X-rays with clipped corners for better patient comfort. By the late 2010s CMOS sensors had largely if not completely replaced CCD sensors, as CMOS sensors can not only be made in existing semiconductor production lines, reducing costs, but they also consume less power, just to name a few advantages. ( see below ) HV-CMOS devices are a specialty case of ordinary CMOS sensors used in high-voltage applications (for detection of high energy particles ) like CERN Large Hadron Collider where

3666-482: The global image sensor market at the time. By 2012, CMOS sensors increased their share to 74% of the market. As of 2017, CMOS sensors account for 89% of global image sensor sales. In recent years, the CMOS sensor technology has spread to medium-format photography with Phase One being the first to launch a medium format digital back with a Sony-built CMOS sensor. In 2012, Sony introduced the stacked CMOS BI sensor. There have been several research activities ongoing in

3744-838: The image sensor function and image processing functions within the same integrated circuit . APS sensors have found markets in many consumer applications, especially camera phones . They have also been used in other fields including digital radiography , military ultra high speed image acquisition, security cameras , and optical mice . Manufacturers include Aptina Imaging (independent spinout from Micron Technology , who purchased Photobit in 2001), Canon , Samsung , STMicroelectronics , Toshiba , OmniVision Technologies , Sony , and Foveon , among others. CMOS-type APS sensors are typically suited to applications in which packaging, power management, and on-chip processing are important. CMOS type sensors are widely used, from high-end digital photography down to mobile-phone cameras. A primary advantage of

3822-503: The laser or LED when in standby mode (each mouse has a different standby time). A typical implementation (by Logitech ) has four power states, where the sensor is pulsed at different rates per second: Movement can be detected in any of these states; some mice turn the sensor fully off in the sleep state, requiring a button click to wake. Optical mice utilizing infrared elements (LEDs or lasers) offer substantial increases in battery life over visible spectrum illumination. Some mice, such as

3900-514: The late 1980s to early 1990s. Between 1988 and 1991, Toshiba developed the " double-gate floating surface transistor" sensor, which had a lateral APS structure, with each pixel containing a buried-channel MOS photogate and a PMOS output amplifier. Between 1989 and 1992, Canon developed the base-stored image sensor (BASIS), which used a vertical APS structure similar to the Olympus sensor, but with bipolar transistors rather than MOSFETs. In

3978-473: The lateral APS and vertical APS. Eric Fossum defines the lateral APS as follows: A lateral APS structure is defined as one that has part of the pixel area used for photodetection and signal storage, and the other part is used for the active transistor(s). The advantage of this approach, compared to a vertically integrated APS, is that the fabrication process is simpler, and is highly compatible with state-of-the-art CMOS and CCD device processes. Fossum defines

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4056-416: The mid-2000s. The term active pixel sensor is also used to refer to the individual pixel sensor itself, as opposed to the image sensor. In this case, the image sensor is sometimes called an active pixel sensor imager , or active-pixel image sensor . While researching metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology, Willard Boyle and George E. Smith realized that an electric charge could be stored on

4134-411: The modern optical computer mouse is known as digital image correlation , a technology pioneered by the defense industry for tracking military targets. A simple binary-image version of digital image correlation was used in the 1980 Lyon optical mouse. Optical mice use image sensors to image naturally occurring texture in materials such as wood, cloth, mouse pads and Formica . These surfaces, when lit at

4212-507: The more common rolling shutter , are possible. In order to increase the pixel densities, shared-row, four-ways and eight-ways shared read out, and other architectures can be employed. A variant of the 3T active pixel is the Foveon X3 sensor invented by Dick Merrill . In this device, three photodiodes are stacked on top of each other using planar fabrication techniques , each photodiode having its own 3T circuit. Each successive layer acts as

4290-509: The motion of light dots in a dark field of a printed paper or similar mouse pad. The Kirsch and Lyon mouse types had very different behaviors, as the Kirsch mouse used an x-y coordinate system embedded in the pad, and would not work correctly when the pad was rotated, while the Lyon mouse used the x-y coordinate system of the mouse body, as mechanical mice do. The optical mouse ultimately sold with

4368-658: The need for a special mouse-pad. A surface-independent coherent light optical mouse design was patented by Stephen B. Jackson at Xerox in 1988, despite never being shown to work. Xerox's inventions were never massively commercially exploited, however, and optical mice would remain elusive in the personal computer market until Microsoft released the IntelliMouse with IntelliEye and IntelliMouse Explorer in 1999. These mice used technology developed by Hewlett-Packard under their Agilent Technologies subsidiary (see below ). These mice worked on almost any surface, and represented

4446-647: The new technology as the MX 1000 laser mouse. This mouse uses a small infrared laser (VCSEL) instead of an LED and significantly increased the resolution of the image taken by the mouse. The laser illumination enabled superior surface tracking compared to LED-illuminated optical mice. In 2008, Avago Technologies introduced laser navigation sensors whose emitter was integrated into the IC using VCSEL technology. In August 2009, Logitech introduced mice with two lasers, to track better on glass and glossy surfaces; they dubbed them

4524-409: The older mechanical mouse and its need for frequent cleaning. The earliest optical mice detected movement on prepared surfaces, however they never gained wide acceptance. The modern optical mouse which uses digital image correlation and which works on almost any surface was invented in 2000 by Gary Gordon , Derek Knee, Rajeev Badyal and Jason Hartlove, and awarded US Patent 6,433,780. Its technology

4602-433: The on-voltage of RST. This reduction may reduce headroom, or full-well charge capacity, but does not affect fill factor, unless V DD is then routed on a separate wire with its original voltage. Techniques such as flushed reset, pseudo-flash reset, and hard-to-soft reset combine soft and hard reset. The details of these methods differ, but the basic idea is the same. First, a hard reset is done, eliminating image lag. Next,

4680-595: The optical mouse was anticipated. These patents formed the basis for US Patent 5,729,008 (1998) awarded to Travis N. Blalock, Richard A. Baumgartner, Thomas Hornak, Mark T. Smith, and Barclay J. Tullis, where surface feature image sensing, image processing, and image correlation was realized by an integrated circuit to produce a position measurement. Improved precision of 2D optical navigation, needed for application of optical navigation to precise 2D measurement of media (paper) advance in HP DesignJet large format printers,

4758-502: The optical mouse's LEDs can vary, but red is most common, as red diodes are inexpensive and silicon photodetectors are very sensitive to red light. IR LEDs are also widely used. Other colors are sometimes used, such as the blue LED of the V-Mouse VM-101 illustrated at right. A laser mouse uses an infrared laser diode instead of an LED to illuminate the surface beneath their sensor. As early as 1998, Sun Microsystems provided

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4836-411: The pinned photodiode to the floating diffusion (which is further connected to the gate of the read-out transistor) eliminating lag. The use of intrapixel charge transfer can offer lower noise by enabling the use of correlated double sampling (CDS). The Noble 3T pixel is still sometimes used since the fabrication requirements are less complex. The 3T pixel comprises the same elements as the 4T pixel except

4914-551: The pixel to read out the photodiode integrated charge. Pixels were arrayed in a two-dimensional structure, with an access enable wire shared by pixels in the same row, and output wire shared by column. At the end of each column was a transistor. Passive-pixel sensors suffered from many limitations, such as high noise , slow readout, and lack of scalability . Early (1960s–1970s) photodiode arrays with selection transistors within each pixel, along with on-chip multiplexer circuits, were impractically large. The noise of photodiode arrays

4992-453: The polarity of the RST signal. The presence of the p-type device reduces fill factor, as extra space is required between p- and n-devices; it also removes the possibility of using the reset transistor as an overflow anti-blooming drain, which is a commonly exploited benefit of the n-type reset FET. Another way to achieve hard reset, with the n-type FET, is to lower the voltage of V RST relative to

5070-582: The previous one by a fraction of a pixel or as many as several pixels. Optical mice mathematically process these images using cross correlation to calculate how much each successive image is offset from the previous one. The output of the optical sensor is usually delta X, Y coordinates. Some optical ICs allow to get image data as well. Mice usually embeds some kind of Image Acquisition System and DSP processors for fast data processing. An optical mouse might use an image sensor having an 18 × 18 pixel array of monochromatic pixels. Its sensor would normally share

5148-450: The red, green, and blue components of the image in conjunction with beam splitter prisms, the three CMOS sensors can be identical, whereas most splitter prisms require that one of the CCD sensors has to be a mirror image of the other two to read out the image in a compatible order. Unlike CCD sensors, CMOS sensors have the ability to reverse the addressing of the sensor elements. CMOS Sensors with

5226-414: The same ASIC as that used for storing and processing the images. One refinement would be accelerating the correlation process by using information from previous motions, and another refinement would be preventing deadbands when moving slowly by adding interpolation or frame-skipping. The development of the modern optical mouse at Hewlett-Packard Co. was supported by a succession of related projects during

5304-460: The surface over which the navigation sensor travelled, and using position measurements of each end of a linear (document) image sensor to reconstruct an image of the document. This is the freehand scanning concept used in the HP CapShare 920 handheld scanner. By describing an optical means that explicitly overcame the limitations of wheels, balls, and rollers used in contemporary computer mice,

5382-434: The surface which is not light-sensitive, reducing the photon-detection efficiency of the device ( microlenses and back-illuminated sensors can mitigate this problem). But the frame-transfer CCD also has about half the non-sensitive area for the frame store nodes, so the relative advantages depend on which types of sensors are being compared. The standard CMOS APS pixel consists of a photodetector ( pinned photodiode ),

5460-463: The transfer gate and the photodiode. The reset transistor, M rst , acts as a switch to reset the floating diffusion to V RST , which in this case is represented as the gate of the M sf transistor. When the reset transistor is turned on, the photodiode is effectively connected to the power supply, V RST , clearing all integrated charge. Since the reset transistor is n-type , the pixel operates in soft reset. The read-out transistor, M sf , acts as

5538-402: The vertical APS as follows: A vertical APS structure increases fill-factor (or reduces pixel size) by storing the signal charge under the output transistor. For applications such as large-area digital X-ray imaging, thin-film transistors (TFTs) can also be used in APS architecture. However, because of the larger size and lower transconductance gain of TFTs compared with CMOS transistors, it

5616-458: Was also a limitation to performance, as the photodiode readout bus capacitance resulted in increased read-noise level. Correlated double sampling (CDS) could also not be used with a photodiode array without external memory . It was not possible to fabricate active-pixel sensors with a practical pixel size in the 1970s, due to limited microlithography technology at the time. Because the MOS process

5694-467: Was fabricated with CMOS rather than PMOS transistors. It was the first CMOS sensor with intra-pixel charge transfer. In 1999, Hyundai Electronics announced the commercial production of a 800x600 color CMOS image sensor based on 4T pixel with a high performance pinned photodiode with integrated ADCs and fabricated in a baseline 0.5um DRAM process. Photobit's CMOS sensors found their way into webcams manufactured by Logitech and Intel , before Photobit

5772-506: Was further refined in US Patent 6,195,475 awarded in 2001 to Raymond G. Beausoleil , Jr., and Ross R. Allen. While the reconstruction of the image in the document scanning application (Allen et al.) required resolution by the optical navigators on the order of 1/600th of an inch, implementation of optical position measurement in computer mice not only benefit from the cost reductions inherent in navigating at lower resolution, but also enjoy

5850-458: Was proposed by G. Weckler in 1968, predating the CCD. This was the basis for the PPS, which had image sensor elements with in-pixel selection transistors, proposed by Peter J.W. Noble in 1968, and by Savvas G. Chamberlain in 1969. Passive-pixel sensors were being investigated as a solid-state alternative to vacuum-tube imaging devices . The MOS passive-pixel sensor used just a simple switch in

5928-633: Was proposed by Peter Noble in 1968. He created sensor arrays with active MOS readout amplifiers per pixel, in essentially the modern three-transistor configuration: the buried photodiode-structure, selection transistor and MOS amplifier. The MOS active-pixel concept was implemented as the charge modulation device (CMD) by Olympus in Japan during the mid-1980s. This was enabled by advances in MOSFET semiconductor device fabrication , with MOSFET scaling reaching smaller micron and then sub-micron levels during

6006-713: Was purchased by Micron Technology in 2001. The early CMOS sensor market was initially led by American manufacturers such as Micron, and Omnivision, allowing the United States to briefly recapture a portion of the overall image sensor market from Japan, before the CMOS sensor market eventually came to be dominated by Japan, South Korea and China. The CMOS sensor with PPD technology was further advanced and refined by R. M. Guidash in 1997, K. Yonemoto and H. Sumi in 2000, and I. Inoue in 2003. This led to CMOS sensors achieve imaging performance on par with CCD sensors, and later exceeding CCD sensors. By 2000, CMOS sensors were used in

6084-456: Was so variable and MOS transistors had characteristics that changed over time ( Vth instability), the CCD's charge-domain operation was more manufacturable and higher performance than MOS passive-pixel sensors. The active-pixel sensor consists of active pixels, each containing one or more MOSFET amplifiers which convert the photo-generated charge to a voltage, amplify the signal voltage, and reduce noise. The concept of an active-pixel device

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