Retinalike space variant CCD sensor

Gregory Kreider; Jan Van der Spiegel; Ivan Born; Cor L. Claeys; Ingrid Debusschere; Giulio Sandini; Paolo Dario; Fausto Fantini

doi:10.1117/12.19445

1 July 1990 Retinalike space variant CCD sensor

Gregory Kreider, Jan Van der Spiegel, Ivan Born, Cor L. Claeys, Ingrid Debusschere, Giulio Sandini, Paolo Dario, Fausto Fantini

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Proceedings Volume 1242, Charge-Coupled Devices and Solid State Optical Sensors; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.19445
Event: Electronic Imaging: Advanced Devices and Systems, 1990, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

The retina is a smart sensor, but in the sense of intelligent design and not on-chip computing power. It uses a unique layout and elementary charge computing elements to implement in hardware a polar-exponential transform on visual data. The final chip includes a large section of photosites arranged in a circular pattern. Further, the pixels grow m size as radial distance increases. The retina also has a fovea (a high resolution area at the chip's center) and the computational circuitry. The sensor works and will serve as the key component of a real-time imaging system.

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Gregory Kreider, Jan Van der Spiegel, Ivan Born, Cor L. Claeys, Ingrid Debusschere, Giulio Sandini, Paolo Dario, and Fausto Fantini "Retinalike space variant CCD sensor", Proc. SPIE 1242, Charge-Coupled Devices and Solid State Optical Sensors, (1 July 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.19445

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