US Patent 7924337 Dual panel pixel readout in an imager

Patent 7924337 was granted and assigned to Micron Technology on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Micron Technology

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7924337

Date of Patent

April 12, 2011

Patent Application Number

12634883

Date Filed

December 10, 2009

Patent Primary Examiner

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Timothy J Henn

Patent abstract

An imager having two panels of pixels (i.e., the imager's rows of pixels are split into two panels) that are controllable by separate row decoders. The dual panel architecture allows pipelining of pixel readout and column readout operations to improve the imager's frame rate. The dual panel architecture may use a standard pixel configuration, a shared column and/or a shared row and column configuration.