3DJAM: A Linear CMOS Sensor for 3D Vision with Merged I-TOF and OT Techniques

Author

Ficorella, Francesco ; Betta, Gian-Franco Dalla ; Viarani, Luigi ; Perenzoni, Matteo ; Stoppa, David ; Gonzo, Lorenzo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Trento Univ.

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0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

261

Lastpage

264

Abstract

3DJAM is a novel 3D image sensor, implemented with a 3.3V, 0.35mum CMOS technology, that combines the optical triangulation (OT) and the indirect time of flight (I-TOF) techniques in a single chip for range finding scanners. It has been designed to cover very large depth scenes (up to 20 meters), achieving sub-millimeter resolution over the OT range (below 2 meters), working with a single pulsed laser source and also taking advantage of ambient light removal. The chip embeds also a programmable logic unit, which supervises over all the internal functions (like timing, pipelining, data transfer), a power supply unit (for both the analogue and the digital subsystems) and an analogue output buffer that can drive an external ADC for data acquisition

Keywords

CMOS image sensors; programmable logic devices; 0.35 micron; 3.3 V; 3D vision; 3DJAM; ambient light removal; analogue output buffer; indirect time of flight; linear CMOS sensor; optical triangulation; programmable logic unit; pulsed laser source; range finding scanners; CMOS image sensors; CMOS technology; Image sensors; Layout; Optical buffering; Optical design; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Programmable logic arrays; Pulsed power supplies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research in Microelectronics and Electronics 2006, Ph. D.

Conference_Location

Otranto

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0157-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RME.2006.1689946

Filename

1689946