Regular Section
Variable Length Coded Address Compression for High-Speed 3-D Range-Finder Using Light-Section Method
2011 Volume E94.C Issue 1 Pages 124-127
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2011 Volume E94.C Issue 1 Pages 124-127
This paper presents an architecture and a circuit design of readout address compression for a high-speed 3-D range-finding image sensor using the light-section method. We utilize a kind of variable-length code which is modified to suit the 3-D range-finder. The best compression rate by the proposed compression technique is 33.3%. The worst compression and the average compression rate is 56.4% and 42.4%, respectively, when we simulated the effectivity by using the example of measured sheet scans. We also show the measurement result of the fabricated image sensor with the address compression.
