Patent ID: 11863886
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein each of the photodiodes has a different full well capacity for storing the residual charge; and
wherein the controller is configured to:
control the plurality of switches to transfer overflow charge from the one or more photodiodes of the set of photodiodes to the single charge sensing unit simultaneously to generate a first voltage;
control the ADC to quantize the first voltage using at least one of the first or third quantization processes to generate a first digital value;
control the plurality of switches to transfer residual charge from the one or more photodiodes to the single charge sensing unit at different times to generate second voltages each corresponding the respective residual charge from the one or more photodiodes;
control the ADC to quantize the second voltages using the second quantization operation to generate second digital values; and
generate the pixel value based on the first digital value and the second digital values.