Active pixel sensor array
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Mar 30, 2010
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Jun 8, 2006
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Dec 6, 2005
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Dec 6, 2004
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Disclosed is an active pixel sensor array, which can reduce the number of elements and the size of capacitors by enabling a reset switching transistor to include a function of an optical sensor and to reset a pixel voltage with a power supply voltage VDD after a gate selection signal is outputted, and to reset a pixel voltage with a power supply voltage VDD by a coupling function in case that a gate selection signal is outputted. The active pixel image sensor having a gate driving circuit and a column driving circuit includes a pixel composed of a voltage supply unit for supplying a signal voltage to the column driving circuit; a gate selection unit for turning on according to a n+1-th gate selection signal and outputting a voltage based on a difference between a pixel voltage and a threshold voltage of the voltage supply unit; a reset switching unit for turning on according to a n+1-th gate selection signal and resetting the pixel voltage with a power supply voltage VDD; and a storage unit and a coupling unit for coupling so as to initialize the pixel voltage to be lower than the power supply voltage VDD just after the n+1-th gate selection signal is outputted.
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