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Published November 1, 1991 | Published + Submitted
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Time-derivative adaptive silicon photoreceptor array

Abstract

We designed and tested a two-dimensional silicon receptor array constructed from pixels that temporally high-pass filter the incident image. There are no surround interactions in the array; all pixels operate independently except for their correlation due to the input image. The high- pass output signal is computed by sampling the output of an adaptive, high-gain, logarithmic photoreceptor during the scanout of the array. After a pixel is sampled, the output of the pixel is reset to a fixed value. An interesting capacitive coupling mechanism results in a controllable high-pass filtering operation. The resulting array has very low offsets. The computation that the array performs may be useful for time-domain image processing, for example, motion computation.

Additional Information

© 1991 SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research (grant NAV N00014-89-J-1675), the National Institute of Health, the Systems Development Foundation, and the State of California Department of Commerce Competitive Technologies Program. Computation was provided by a grant from Hewlett-Packard, and chip fabrication was supported by DARPA, through the MOSIS service.

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