Abstract
The retina is an intelligent vision sensor indispensable in real-time image information processing of animals. The parallel image processing function of the retina was realized in an analog CMOS integrated circuit (vision chip). The chip was implemented with a one-dimensional Laplacian–Gaussian receptive field the size of which can be controlled by external signals. Active pixel sensors were used in the sensor part of the chip where the light sensitivity can be controlled by varying the accumulation time. Circuits compensating for noise due to the mismatch of transistor characteristics were incorporated, and the experimental results verified that sufficiently accurate outputs can be obtained under natural illumination. The chip can effectively extract the spatial frequency bandwidth of the signal in the presence of noise. © 1999 Scripta Technica, Syst Comp Jpn, 30(1): 60–69, 1999
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