Patent ID: 8094215
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system that employs digital column gain mismatch correction for a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) imaging system-on-chip (iSoC) sensor, comprising: a test signal generation component that provides tunable voltages that mimic presence of photo-charge to test pixels in one or more rows of a pixel array; and a column mismatch mitigation component that calibrates column-specific digital gain corrections based upon digital input data obtained from the test pixels via an analog readout architecture and mitigates column gain mismatch by employing the column-specific digital gain corrections for digital input data obtained from non-test pixels via the analog readout architecture to yield digital output data, the column mismatch mitigation component retains and retrieves correction values corresponding to each column of the pixel array from a data store, the correction values are functions of the respective column-specific digital gain corrections and a common scaling parameter that is tuned to match an available memory dynamic to a range of uncorrected gain mismatch.