Patent ID: 7012646

Claim:
A charge-coupled device for forming an electronic representation of an image from incident light, the charge-coupled device comprising: (a) a substrate of a first type; (b) a photosensitive area of a second type disposed in the substrate for receiving the incident light that is converted to a charge packet; (c) a transfer mechanism for activating transfer of the charge packet through the charge-coupled device; (d) an output mechanism for receiving the transferred charge packet; (e) a reset operator for resetting the output mechanism to a charge voltage; (f) a NOR gate disposed on the substrate that inputs a gate waveform to the reset operator for activating the resetting operation of the reset; and (g) a first input to the NOR gate which receives a clocking substantially equal to a clocking for the transfer mechanism for forming a first clocking, and a second input which receives a time-delayed first clocking from a time-delay circuit that is on the substrate.