Design of an RGBW color VGA rolling and global shutter dynamic and active-pixel vision sensor

Abstract

This paper reports the design of a color dynamic and active-pixel vision sensor (C-DAVIS) for robotic vision applications. The C-DAVIS combines monochrome eventgenerating dynamic vision sensor pixels and 5-transistor active pixels sensor (APS) pixels patterned with an RGBW color filter array. The C-DAVIS concurrently outputs rolling or global shutter RGBW coded VGA resolution frames and asynchronous monochrome QVGA resolution temporal contrast events. Hence the C-DAVIS is able to capture spatial details with color and track movements with high temporal resolution while keeping the data output sparse and fast. The C-DAVIS chip is fabricated in TowerJazz 0.18um CMOS image sensor technology. An RGBW 2×2-pixel unit measures 20um × 20um. The chip die measures 8mm × 6.2mm.