Nathaniel McCaffrey
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media and patents

media selections
   A Camera Stares into the Light But Doesn't Blink’, New York Times
   ‘Smile you’re on cellphone camera’, USA Today
   Disposable Camera featured in Maxim Magazine
   New Jersey Institute of Technology Research Magazine (1993)
   PC Magazine article
   High frame rate megapixel camera system
   Digital still camera featured in Sharper Image catalog
  "Wide Dynamic Range CMOS Pixels" presentation at Vision Show
   Micro camera with high dynamic range and rapid response
   Histogram based video processor for portable application
   Products featured in David Sarnoff RC Histories  |Book1 Book2
selected publications
   Book Chapter “Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era” ISBN: 140201788X
   Invited Paper “Advanced Infrared Imaging Techniques’ SPIE Infrared Technology 1988-1998 CD-ROM
   ‘Scientific CMOS Pixels’, Experimental Astronomy, August 2002, V14- 1, pp. 33-43
   ‘BLINC: A 640x480 CMOS active pixel video camera with adaptive digital processing, …”, SPIE Proc. 4306-05
   Invited Paper ‘The Use of Cameras in Automotive Safety and Convenience Applications’, Sensors Expo, Detroit, June 2004.
   “692 x 504 CMOS APS Imager with Extended Dynamic Range and On-Chip 12-bit ADC ", SPIE Proc. 3965-16, San Jose.
   “Very Low Cost Real Time Histogram Based Contrast Enhancer Utilizing Fixed Point DSP Processing", Photonics West, SPIE Proc. 3303-06
   "Recent Advances in the Development of Multi-Wavelength Imaging Pyrometer", Optical Engineering, November 1997.
   "1024 X 1024 Pixel High Frame-Rate Digital CCD Cameras", 22nd International Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, SPIE Proc. 2869 pp. 812-821, Santa Fe.
   "Experimental Multi-Wavelength Imaging Pyrometer for Remote Sensing of Temperature Profiles on Surfaces with Unknown Emissivity", Archives Internationales de Photogrammetrie et de Teledetection, ISPRS Proc. XVIII-B1, Vienna
   “Progress on the Development of Multi-Wavelength Imaging Pyrometer", Infrared Detectors and Focal Plane Arrays IV, SPIE Proc. 2746, Orlando
   "Computer Workstation for Multi-Wavelength Imaging Pyrometer", EMPMD Conference on Transient Thermal Processing of Materials, Session IV, Anaheim
   "Multi-Wavelength Imaging Pyrometer for Non-Contact Temperature Monitoring", EMPMD Conference on Transient Thermal Processing of Materials, Session IV, Anaheim
   "High Frame Rate Infrared and Visible Cameras for Test Range Instrumentation", SPIE Proc. 2552-37
   "Multi-Wavelength Imaging Pyrometer for Non-Contact Temperature Sensing", IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Athens GR
   "Radiometric Performance of 640X480 and 320X244 PtSi IR Cameras", SPIE Proc. 2225-05, Orlando
   "Multi-Wavelength Imaging Pyrometer", SPIE Proc. 2225-04, Orlando
   "Development of Emissivity Models and Induced Transmission Filters for Multi Wavelength Imaging Pyrometry", Thermosense, SPIE Proc. 2445-48
   Thesis "Design of a 320X122 MWIR-CCD PtSi Imaging Radiometer with Automatic Optical Integration Time Control", New Jersey Institute of Technology, May 1993
   "Radiometric Infrared Focal Plane Array Imaging System for Thermographic Applications", NASA Report NAS1-18226, NASA Langley Research Center
   "End Point Monitoring of Patterned Wafers during Reactive Ion Etching using a High Resolution Infrared Camera", Proc. American Vacuum Society, Chicago
   "The Effects of Chronic Stress on Startle Response: A Three Dimensional Analysis", Proc. 17th Annual Conference of the IEEE Bio-Medical Society
US Patents awarded               an additional 24 patents are pending

US Patent 5,822,222: “Multi-Wavelength Imaging Pyrometer”.
US Patent 5,949,918: “Method and Apparatus for Performing Image Enhancement”.
US Patent 6,040,570: “Extended Dynamic Range Image Sensor System”.
US Patent 6,101,294: “Extended Dynamic Range Imaging System and Method”.
US Patent 6,433,326: “CMOS/CCD Line Transfer Imager with Low Dark Current”.
US Patent 6,441,852: “ Extended Dynamic Range Image Sensor”
US Patent 6,472,653: “Method and apparatus to extend dynamic range of TDI CCD”
US Patent 6,535,275: “High resolution 3-D imaging rangefinder”
US Patent 6,657,706: “Method and apparatus for resolving times-of-arrival of light pulses”
US Patent 6,870,209: “CMOS Pixel with Dual Gate PMOS”
US Patent 6,911,712: “CMOS pixel using vertical structure and sub-micron CMOS process”
US Patent 6,984,812: “Auto Registered Component RGB Method”
US Patent 6,992,713: “Fully Integrated Solid State Imager and Camera Display”
US Patent 7,020,353: “Extended Dynamic Range Imaging System and Method”
US Patent 7,109,537: “CMOS pixel with dual gate PMOS”
US Patent 7,129,975: “Addressable imager with real time defect detection and substitution”
US Patent 7,238,993: “Advanced CMOS Pixel”
US Patent 7,265,397: “CCD imager constructed with CMOS fabrication techniques…”
US Patent: 7,324,145: “Multiplexing prism CMOS imagers to a single data bus”
US Patent: 7,336,530: “Pixel circuit with a dual gate PMOS”
US Patent: 7,554,590: “Simultaneous readout of CMOA APS imagers”
US Patent: 7,745,901: “Highly depleted laser doped semiconductor volume”