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A <span class="MathJax_Preview" style="">\mathbf{160}\times \mathbf{120}</span><script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-1">\mathbf{160}\times \mathbf{120}</script> Indirect Time-of-Flight Sensor with Pixel-Level Adaptive <span class="MathJax_Preview" style="">\Delta\Sigma</span><script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-2">\Delta\Sigma</script>-Operations for Background Light Cancellation | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

A \mathbf{160}\times \mathbf{120} Indirect Time-of-Flight Sensor with Pixel-Level Adaptive \Delta\Sigma-Operations for Background Light Cancellation


Abstract:

An indirect time-of-flight (iToF) sensor has been spotlighted for its high-quality depth images within a few meter ranges, making it a strong candidate for realizing meta...Show More

Abstract:

An indirect time-of-flight (iToF) sensor has been spotlighted for its high-quality depth images within a few meter ranges, making it a strong candidate for realizing metaverse applications in mobile devices [1]. However, one of the unresolved challenges in iToF sensors is low background light (BGL) resilience, which can saturate floating diffusion (FD) nodes and deteriorate a demodulation contrast (DC), causing large depth distortion and noise. Even though in-pixel auto-zeroing and chopping techniques have achieved BGL robustness up to 200 klx, it still has large noise of over 3% due to noise contribution from the BGL cancellation technique [2]. The in-pixel voltage subtraction scheme has been reported for compensating BGL up to 180 klx, but it requires tons of switching operations, generating large noise as well as charge injections [3]. The column-parallel \Delta\Sigma BGL canceling technique has been introduced to subtract a common-mode voltage of each FD node and accumulate differential signals [4]. However, the column-parallel architecture has limited scalability and still suffers from additional reset noise due to the dedicated number of \Delta\Sigma-operations. Another big challenge of iToF sensor is the degradation of depth non-linearity and precision caused by FD mismatches [5]. Although common-mode voltage has been successfully compensated in [4], FD mismatches can still convert residual BGL to phase information.
Date of Conference: 05-08 November 2023
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 18 December 2023
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Conference Location: Haikou, China

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