Patent №
US 4,906,855
Granted
1990-03-06
Filed 1989
Owner
THOMSON-CSF
Lab
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AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
07313451
The disclosure concerns matrices of photosensitive elements. To prevent the need for a resetting light source in matrices using, as a photosensitive dot, a photodiode in series with a capacitor between a row conductor and a column conductor, a photosensitive dot is proposed, formed by a photodiode in series with a reading diode between a row conductor and a column conductor, it being possible to put the reading diode into forward or reverse conduction. To read the photoelectrical charges generated, a reading pulse, which makes the reading diode forward conductive, is applied. To then reset the potential of the floating node A, at which the photoelectrical charges accumulate, at a constant starting level, a reverse resetting pulse is applied, thus making the reading diode conductive (but this time in reverse conduction).
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Ownership
THOMSON-CSF
assignment · 51960886
Assignors
BERGER, JEAN-LUC, ARQUES, MARC
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