发明名称 Low noise reading architecture for active sensor arrays
摘要 A sensor apparatus includes an array of active sensor elements arranged in columns and rows. Each sensor element is associated with a thin film access device disposed in a first current path through which an activation current is provided to activate the sensor element. Each sensor element is read through a respective second current path. The second current paths do not include the thin film access device of the first current path. As such, noise from the thin film access device is isolated from the second current paths.
申请公布号 US9279837(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.03.08
申请号 US201514717054 申请日期 2015.05.20
申请人 NEXT BIOMETRICS GROUP ASA 发明人 Troccoli Matias
分类号 G06K9/00;G01R29/00;G01R19/32;H04N5/3745;G01R19/10 主分类号 G06K9/00
代理机构 Duane Morris LLP 代理人 Duane Morris LLP
主权项 1. A sensor apparatus, comprising: an array of active sensor elements arranged in columns and rows; a first plurality of thin film access devices, each thin film access device being associated with a respective group of at least two sensor elements that are coupled in series in a first current path through which an activation current from an activation current source is provided to activate the respective group of at least two sensor elements, the thin film access device coupling the respective group of at least two sensor elements to the activation current from the activation current source when biased in an on condition; and a second plurality of thin film access devices, each thin film access device from the second plurality of thin film access devices being coupled to a respective sensor element, wherein each sensor clement is read through a respective second current path including a respective thin film access device from the second plurality of thin film access devices through which a reading current is provided when accessing the sensor element for reading; and wherein the second current paths do not include the thin film access devices of the first current paths, whereby noise from the first plurality of thin film access devices is isolated from the second current paths, wherein for each row of sensor elements the sensor elements in each group of at least two sensor elements and its respective thin film access device from the first plurality of thin film access devices are coupled in series between a row line and a first column line, through which the activation current is provided, each sensor element also being coupled to a respective second column line through which the reading current is provided to its respective thin film access device of the second current path.
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