Patent ID: 11871122
Assignee: ANDURIL INDUSTRIES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A computational pixel imager having an array of pixels, one or more of the pixels comprising:
a detector;
a signal converter connected to receive a signal from the detector;
a multiplexer connected to an output of the signal converter; and
two or more counters connected to outputs of the multiplexer, wherein a counter of the two or more counters comprises:
a b-bit counter;
a data line arranged to transmit a value of a most significant bit of the b-bit counter; and
read-out circuitry configured to read the most significant bit at a higher read-out rate than a read-out rate for other bits of the b-bit counter.