Image Sensors

Cheng-Te Wang, Chen-Fu Yeh, Syuan-Hao Sie, Yi-Ren Chen, Ren-Shuo Liu, Chung-Chuan Lo, Kea-Tiong Tang, Meng-Fan Chang, Chih-Cheng Hsieh National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, *Equally-Credited Authors (ECAs) Ener

dark and bright conditions. In recent years, these features have been required for small pixel CMOS image sensors (CISs) to realize high S/N and resolutions while maintaining a high frame rate. An effective way to improv

Tomohiko Asatsuma1, Yuki Hattori1, Takayuki Yamanaka2, Ryoichi Yoshikawa2, Naoki Kawazu1, Tomohiro Matsuura1, Takahiro Iinuma1, Takahiro Toya1, Tomohiko Watanabe2, Atsushi Suzuki1, Yuichi Motohashi1, Junichiro Azami1, Ya

Joo Hyoung Kim, Dongsuk Cho, Taehun Lee, Changkyu Lee, Haeyong Park, Soojin Hong, Chongkwang Chang, Jingyun Kim, Hanjin Lim, Youngsun Oh, Yitae Kim, Seungjoo Nah, Sangill Jung, Jaekyu Lee, JungChak Ahn, Hyeongsun Hong, K

Taehyoung Kim, Jungchan Kyoung, Dongmo Im, Jinyong Choi, KeunYeong Cho, Daehoon Kim, Haemin Lim, Min-Woong Seo, JuYoung Kim, Doowon Kwon, Jiyoun Song, Jiyoon Kim, Minho Jang, Joosung Moon, HyunChul Kim, Chong Kwang Chang

Jihoon Park1, Yeonsoo Ahn1, Kihwan Cho1, Jungsoon Shin3, Seung Min Song3, Seong-Jin Kim2, Jung-Hoon Chun1, Jaehyuk Choi1 Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Ko

C.-F. Liang*, S.-S. Su, M.-J. Yang, C.-Y. Chen, S.-L. Cheng, H.-D. Liu, C.-T. Lin, K. P. Petrov, H.-W. Chen, K.-C. Chu, P.-C. Wu, P.-T. Huang, N. Na, S.-L. Chen Artilux, Hsinchu, Taiwan, *Equally-Credited Authors (ECAs)

Masato Takemoto, Yugo Nose, Hiroshi Koshida, Masaki Tamaru, Yuki Sugiura, Shigeru Saito, Shinzo Koyama, Mitsuyoshi Mori, Yutaka Hirose, Masayuki Sawada, Akihiro Odagawa, Tsuyoshi Tanaka Panasonic, Nagaokakyo, Japan Long-

Thomas Finateu1, Atsumi Niwa2, Daniel Matolin1, Koya Tsuchimoto2, Andrea Mascheroni1, Etienne Reynaud 1, Pooria Mostafalu3, Frederick Brady3, Ludovic Chotard1, Florian LeGoff1, Hirotsugu Takahashi2, Hayato Wakabayashi2,

Masatoshi Hirono3, Tuan Thanh Ta1, Hidenori Okuni1, Shinichi Ohtsuka2, Yoshinari Ojima2, Tomohiko Sugimoto2, Hirotomo Ishii2, Kentaro Yoshioka1, Katsuyuki Kimura2, Akihide Sai1, Nobu Matsumoto2 Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan T

characteristics of signals in the terahertz band (100GHz to 10THz) located between the millimeter wave band and the infrared band. In particular, terahertz waves have higher spatial resolution than mm-waves. Moreover, th

Kingdom 3 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1 2 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) applications pose extremely challenging dynamic range (DR) requirements on optical time-of-flight (ToF) receivers due to

Yugo Nose, Motonori Ishii, Seiji Yamahira, Shigetaka Kasuga, Mitsuyoshi Mori, Tatsuya Kabe, Kentaro Nakanishi, Manabu Usuda, Akihiro Odagawa, Tsuyoshi Tanaka Panasonic, Nagaokakyo, Japan The intensive development of Sing

Nikita Gusev1, Gairik Dutta1, Rahul Gulve1, Harel Haim1, Manuel Moreno Garcia3, David Stoppa4, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos1, Roman Genov1 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Synopsys, Toronto, Canada 3 Fondazione Bruno Kess

Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gyeongbuk, Korea 1 2 The demand for high-frame-rate CMOS image sensors is steadily increasing. Column-parallel single-slope (SS) ADCs are widely used in CMOS image sensors, because

CA 1 2 Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) are attractive features for object detection in embedded vision applications, as they provide a good trade-off between complexity and detection accuracy. A custom 8b CMOS ima

life, the demand for different sensor modalities, especially imaging, is rising. IoT imagers are often compact and have small form-factor batteries and thus must be designed with both low power (improving battery life) a

Wenjie Shi2, Jinjian Hou2, Ke Shao2, Haojie Wang2, Pengge Xiao2, Zexu Shao2, Xiao Xie1, Xiaoyong Wang1, Chris Yiu1 SmartSens Technology, San Jose, CA SmartSens Technology, Shanghai, China 1 2 Request for smart vision rel

Yuichiro Yamashita3, D. N. Yaung3, Edoardo Charbon1,2 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands EPFL, Neuchatel, Switzerland; 3TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 2 Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems based on d

Stefan Wurster, Onur Akkaya, Andrew Payne, John Godbaz, Mike Fenton, Vijay Rajasekaran, Larry Prather, Satya Nagaraja, Vishali Mogallapu, Dane Snow, Rich McCauley, Mustansir Mukadam, Iskender Agi, Shaun McCarthy, Zhanpin

Satoshi Kondo1, Tuan Thanh Ta1, Hidenori Okuni1, Kaori Watanabe1, Yoshinari Ojima1, Katsuyuki Kimura1, Sohichiroh Hosoda1, Yutaka Oota1, Tomohiro Koizumi1, Naoyuki Kawabe1, Yasuhiro Ishii1, Yoichiro Iwagami1, Seitaro Yag

Takahiro Yamasaki1, Hiroshi Shimamoto1, Tomohiko Kosugi2, Sung-Wook Jun2, Takashi Watanabe2,3, Masanori Nagase2, Toshiaki Kitajima2, Satoshi Aoyama2, Shoji Kawahito2,3 NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Toky

Charles Chih-Min Liu, Calvin Yi-Ping Chao, Chiao-Yi Huang, Honyih Tu, Thomas Wu, Shang-Fu Yeh, Seiji Takahashi, Yimin Huang TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan Slow-motion video is a desirable feature for state-of-art smartphones. The

Shinichiro Futami1, Toshio Ohyama1, Tsutomu Imoto1, Masahiko Nakamizo1, Hirotaka Murakami2, Tatsuki Nishino1, Anas Bostamam1, Takahiro Iinuma1, Naoki Kuzuya1, Kensuke Hatsukawa3, Frederick Brady2, William Bidermann2, Tos

Bumsuk Kim, Youngsun Oh, Sunghoon Oh, Byungjun Park, Euiyeol Kim, YunKi Lee, Taesub Jung, Yongwoon Kim, Sukki Yoon, Seokyong Hong, Jesuk Lee, Sangil Jung, Chang-Rok Moon, Yongin Park, Duckhyung Lee, Duckhyun Chang Samsun

Masaaki Yanagida1, Yoshiaki Satou1, Makoto Shouho1, Hidenari Kanehara1, Ryota Sakaida1, Yoshihiro Sato1, Junji Hirase1, Yuko Tomekawa1, Yutaka Abe2, Hiroshi Fujinaka2, Yoshiyuki Matsunaga3, Masashi Murakami1, Mitsuru Har

Manuel Moreno Garcia1, Manuel Unternährer2, Bänz Bessire2, André Stefanov2, David Stoppa1,3, Matteo Perenzoni1 Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 3now with ams AG, Rüschl

Katsumi Honda1, Hidekazu Kikuchi1, Takuya Wada1, Yasunobu Kamikubo1, Tsukasa Miura1, Masahiko Nakamizo1, Naoki Jyo2, Ryo Hayashibara2, Yohei Furukawa3, Shinya Miyata3, Satoshi Yamamoto1, Yoshiyuki Ota1, Hirotsugu Takahas

Masatsugu Kobayashi1, Sayaka Shida1, Masaki Odahara2, Kenichi Takamiya2, Yasuaki Hisamatsu2, Shizunori Matsumoto2, Leo Miyashita3, Yoshihiro Watanabe3, Takashi Izawa1, Yoshinori Muramatsu1, Masatoshi Ishikawa3 Sony Semic

noise level, particularly, deep sub-electron read noise (less than 0.5e-rms), have been reported. Such an ultra-low noise level is realized with a reduced floating diffusion (FD) node capacitance for attaining the high p

Masaaki Yanagida, Takayoshi Yamada, Masumi Izuchi, Yoshiaki Sato, Yasuo Miyake, Manabu Nakata, Masashi Murakami, Mitsuru Harada, Yasunori Inoue Panasonic, Osaka, Japan The use of infrared (IR) imaging to view scenes othe

Taku Umebayashi1, Hiroshi Takahashi1, Kazuo Taniguchi1, Masami Kuroda1, Hiroshi Sumihiro1, Koji Enoki1, Takatsugu Yamasaki2, Katsuya Ikezawa1, Atsushi Kitahara1, Masao Zen1, Masafumi Oyama1, Hiroki Koga1, Hidenobu Tsugaw

Masahiro Kobayashi, Yusuke Onuki, Kazunari Kawabata, Hiroshi Sekine, Toshiki Tsuboi, Yasushi Matsuno, Hidekazu Takahashi, Toru Koizumi, Katsuhito Sakurai, Hiroshi Yuzurihara, Shunsuke Inoue, Takeshi Ichikawa Canon, Kanag

Wearable sensors are increasingly common and continue to grow more diverse in their sensing modalities, ranging from glucose to heart rate monitoring. One compelling sensing modality for wearable sensors is cumulative li

effective methods in life science and medicine. Among others, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is one of the representative measurement techniques for biomedical applications. Recently, advanced all-solid-

Bob Kuimelis, Sara Bolouki, Pejman Naraghi-Arani, Kirsten Johnson, Mark McDermott, Nicholas Wood, Piyush Savalia, Nader Gamini InSilixa, Sunnyvale, CA Integration and miniaturization of bio-molecular detection systems in

Changwoo Shin1, Keunju Park1, Kyoobin Lee1, Jinman Park1, Jooyeon Woo1, Yohan Roh1, Hyunku Lee1, Yibing Wang2, Ilia Ovsiannikov2, Hyunsurk Ryu1 Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, Korea Samsung Electronics,

Hiroshi Shimamoto1, Tomohiko Kosugi2, Sungwook Jun2, Satoshi Aoyama2, Ming-Chieh Hsu3, Yuichiro Yamashita3, Hirofumi Sumi3, Shoji Kawahito2,4 NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan, Brookman Technol

image sensors. In addition, 3D stacking separates pixel array and peripheral circuits. As such, computational imaging blocks (stereo vision, array camera, reconfigurable instruction cell array, etc.) can integrate with s

2e-, 3D-stacked CMOS image sensor (CIS) for mobile applications. A key motivation for using a stacked configuration is to minimize the chip area. Also, since numerous components must be integrated into the bottom chip, a

sensors such as camcorders, digital still cameras, mobile phones, and surveillance cameras. Even though leading-edge image sensors have reached the noise floor of a few electrons [1,2], a thrust towards darker levels sti

Recent technology surveys identified flash light detection and ranging technology as the best choice for the navigation and landing of spacecrafts in extraplanetary missions, working from single-point altimeter to range-

Daisuke Yoshida, Yasushi Matsuno, Masanobu Ohmura, Hidekazu Takahashi, Katsuhito Sakurai, Takeshi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Yuzurihara, Shunsuke Inoue Canon, Kawasaki, Japan Recently, there has been strong demand for high-resolu

Bart Ceulemans, Guy Meynants, Navid Sarhangnejad, Gavril Arsinte, Victor Statescu, Sonja van der Groen CMOSIS NV, Antwerp, Belgium In today’s airborne mapping applications, there is a strong push towards higher-resolutio

in-vehicle cameras, and surveillance cameras require a global shutter (GS) function. GS functions are an increasingly powerful technology driver, not only for solving imaging problems caused by rolling shutter distortion

Masaaki Yanagida, Tokuhiko Tamaki, Masayuki Takase, Hidenari Kanehara, Masashi Murakami, Yasunori Inoue Panasonic, Moriguchi, Japan Image sensors are increasingly becoming key devices for various applications (in-vehicle

become widely used in mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and so on. Beyond ordinary touch functions, some devices adopt an extra electromagnetic resonance (EMR) system [1] to support pens for advanced user expe

with displays, offer many advantages over that of conventional touch-panel screens by offering a more hygienic and a more immersive & interactive human/machine interface for 3D user experiences [1]. While significant pro

A mutual-capacitance touch-sensing architecture and a system that enables concurrent usage of multiple active styluses having different properties such as color, thickness, shape, etc., are developed and verified with us

Munehiro Kozuma1, Seiichi Yoneda1, Hiroki Inoue1, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa1, Takayuki Ikeda1, Yoshinori Ieda1, Naoto Yamade1, Hidekazu Miyairi1, Makoto Ikeda2, Shunpei Yamazaki1 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan