Patent ID: 6967683

Claim:
A photosensitive apparatus, comprising at least one silicon chip, the silicon chip including: a plurality of photosensors, organized in a plurality of subsets of photosensors, each photosensor having a shift register stage associated therewith, at least one photosensor in each subset outputting a signal to a common video line in response to the shift register stage associated therewith being activated; a common shift register line for activating a plurality of shift register stages associated with a subset of photosensors; and for each subset of photosensors, a local clock driver, the local clock driver including an enabling amplifier operatively disposed between the common shift register line and the shift register stages in the subset of photosensors, and a flip-flop associated with a first and last photosensor in the subset, the flip-flop outputting an enabling signal to the enabling amplifier.