ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,220, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TELEDYNE DIGITAL IMAGING INC. (Toronto).
"Apparatus and method for pixel binning for charge-domain CMOS TDI imaging" was invented by Hyun Jung Lee (Waterloo, Canada) and Paul Donegan (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel binning apparatus and a method for a charge-domain CMOS TDI image sensor, comprising a row of a first transfer gate coupled to a first row of a plurality of pixel registers, a plurality of binning registers coupled to the first transfer gate, a plurality of second transfer gates coupled to the plurality of binning registers, and a row of storage registers co...