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

Claim 10:
11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to:
within a first time period:
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 at different times to generate first voltages each corresponding the respective overflow charge from the one or more photodiodes; and
control the ADC to quantize the first voltages using at least one of the first or third quantization processes to generate first digital values;
within a second time period:
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 to 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 at least some of the first digital values and the second digital values.