Column Parallel Signal Processing Techniques for Reducing Thermal and RTS Noises in CMOS Image Sensors
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This paper presents column parallel signal processing techniques for reducing thermal and RTS noises of in-pixel source followers. Noise reduction methods of correlated multiple sampling differential averaging (CMSDA) and histogram-based RTS-noise suppression and averaging (HRNSA) are applied and their effectiveness for RTS noise reduction is demonstrated for large sampling number.
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