High-resolution focal plane image processing

Ralph Etienne-Cummings; Dmitrii I. Gruev; Mathew Clapp

doi:10.1117/12.445322

10 October 2001 High-resolution focal plane image processing

Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Dmitrii I. Gruev, Mathew Clapp

Proceedings Volume 4369, Infrared Technology and Applications XXVII; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.445322
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 2001, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Two types of focal plane image processing chips are presented. They address the two extremes of the application spectrum: general purpose and application specific designs. They both exploit the promise of focal-plane computation offered by CMOS technology. The general-purpose computational sensor, a 16x16 pixels prototype (easily scalable to larger arrays), has been fabricated in a standard 1.2 μ CMOS process, and its spatio-temporal filtering capabilities have been successfully tested. An array larger than 300x300 array will use only 0.5% of the chip area for the processing unit while providing multiple spatio-temporally processed images in parallel. The 16x16 chip performs 1 GOPS/mW (5.5-bit scale-accumulate) while computing four spatio-temporal images in parallel. The application specific system realizes a hybrid imaging system by combining a 120 X 36 low-noise active pixel sensor (APS) array with a 60x36 current mode motion detection and centroid localization array. These two arrays are spatially interleaved. The APS array, which integrates photo-generated charges on a capacitor in each pixel, includes column parallel correlated double sampling for fixed pattern noise reduction. The current mode array operates in continuous time, however, the programmable motion detection circuit indicates if the intensity of light at pixel is time varying. The centroid, x and y position, of all time varying pixels is computed using circuits located at the edges of the array. Clocked at greater than 60 fps, the chip consumes less than 2 mW.

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Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Dmitrii I. Gruev, and Mathew Clapp "High-resolution focal plane image processing", Proc. SPIE 4369, Infrared Technology and Applications XXVII, (10 October 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.445322

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