A solid state image sensor architecture that utilizes drain structures at one or more locations on a shift register, as set by the design, allowing the user to select which charge packets are needed to represent the image and draining the remaining packets. Since the used packets are drained, there is...http://www.google.de/patents/US5874993?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5874993 - Solid state image sensor with selectable resolution
