US 11,810,990 B2
Electro-optical systems, methods and computer program products for image generation
Hillel Hillel, Aley Zahav (IL); Roni Dobrinsky, Tel Aviv (IL); Omer Kapach, Jerusalem (IL); Ariel Danan, Tel Aviv (IL); Avraham Bakal, Tel Aviv (IL); and Uriel Levy, Kiryat-Ono (IL)
Assigned to TriEye Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by TriEye Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/202,619.
Application 17/202,619 is a continuation of application No. 17/202,520, filed on Mar. 16, 2021.
Application 17/202,520 is a continuation of application No. 17/266,142, previously published as PCT/IB2020/060011, filed on Oct. 24, 2020.
Application 17/266,142 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/662,665, filed on Oct. 24, 2019, granted, now 10,978,600.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/094,913, filed on Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/093,945, filed on Oct. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/075,426, filed on Sep. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0223108 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. H01L 31/036 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 25/63 (2023.01); H04N 5/33 (2023.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); G01S 7/48 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 7/484 (2006.01); G01S 7/4863 (2020.01); G01J 5/00 (2022.01); G01J 5/10 (2006.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01)
CPC H01L 31/036 (2013.01) [G01S 7/484 (2013.01); G01S 7/4863 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); H01L 27/14612 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 25/63 (2023.01); G01J 5/10 (2013.01); G01J 2005/0077 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electro-optical (EO) system with dynamic photosite (PS) usability assessment, the system comprising:
a photodetector array (PDA) comprising a plurality of PSs, each PS operative to output detection signals for different frames, the detection signal output for a frame by the respective photosite being indicative of an amount of light impinging on the respective PS during a respective frame exposure time (FET);
a usability filtering module operative to first determine for each PS of the plurality of PSs that the PS is unusable based on a first FET, and to later determine that the PS is usable based on a second FET that is shorter than the first FET; and
a processor operative to generate images based on frame detection levels of the plurality of PSs, wherein the processor is configured to:
exclude, when generating a first image based on first frame detection levels, a first detection signal of a filtered PS that was determined by the usability filtering module as unusable for the first image, and
include, when generating a second image based on second frame detection levels captured by the PDA after the capturing of the first frame detection levels, a second detection signal of the filtered PS that was determined by the usability filtering module as usable for the second image.