Patents by Inventor Konstantin Postnikov

Konstantin Postnikov has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus and method for increasing readout speed of a solid state imager
    Patent number: 7565033
    Abstract: An imaging system features high speed digitization of pixel signals by utilizing top and bottom digitization circuits which pipeline sample-and-hold operations with analog-to-digital conversion. In operation, while one digitization circuit is performing a sample-and-hold operation, the other digitization circuit is performing analog-to-digital conversion. The speed of the imaging system may be further increased by pipelining and interleaving operations within the top and bottom digitization circuits by using additional sets of sample-and-hold circuits and analog-to-digital converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Aptina Imaging Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Hanson, Alexander Krymski, Konstantin Postnikov
  • Doubling of speed in CMOS sensor with column-parallel ADCS
    Publication number: 20030043089
    Abstract: An imaging system features high speed digitization of pixel signals by utilizing top and bottom digitization circuits which pipeline sample-and-hold operations with analog-to-digital conversion. In operation, while one digitization circuit is performing a sample-and-hold operation, the other digitization circuit is performing analog-to-digital conversion. The speed of the imaging system may be further increased by pipelining and interleaving operations within the top and bottom digitization circuits by using additional sets of sample-and-hold circuits and analog-to-digital converters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Eric Hanson, Alexander Krymski, Konstantin Postnikov