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The fill factor of an image sensor array is the ratio of a pixel's light sensitive area to its total area. For pixels without microlenses, the fill factor is the ratio of photodiode area to total pixel area, but the use of microlenses increases the effective fill factor, often to nearly 100%, by converging light from the whole pixel area into the photodiode.

Another case that reduces the fill factor of an image is to add additional memory beside each pixel, so as to achieve a global shutter on CMOS sensors.

Additional memory to achieve global shutter effect for CMOS sensor.

References

  1. Sebastiano Battiato; Arcangelo Ranieri Bruna; Giuseppe Messina; Giovanni Puglisi, eds. (2010). Image Processing for Embedded Devices: From CFA Data to Image/video Coding. Bentham Science Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 9781608051700.
  2. Sebastiano Battiato; Arcangelo Ranieri Bruna; Giuseppe Messina; Giovanni Puglisi, eds. (2010). Image Processing for Embedded Devices: From CFA Data to Image/video Coding. Bentham Science Publishers. p. 29. ISBN 9781608051700.
  3. ^ "Sensors: Global shutter - Personal View Talks". www.personal-view.com. Retrieved 2017-07-29.


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