Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor supporting various operating modes and operating method thereof
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Application No.: US16523021Application Date: 2019-07-26
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Publication No.: US10574929B2Publication Date: 2020-02-25
- Inventor: Minji Hwang , Hyosang Kim , Haesick Sul , Seung Hyun Lim
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Onello & Mello, LLP
- Priority: KR10-2015-0171656 20151203
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/345 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/347

Abstract:
Disclosed is an image sensor. The image sensor includes an active pixel sensor array including first to fourth pixel units sequentially arranged in a column direction, and each of the first to fourth pixel units is composed of a plurality of pixels. A first pixel group including the first and second pixel units is connected to a first column line, and a second pixel group including the third pixel unit and the fourth pixel unit is connected to a second column line. The image sensor includes a correlated double sampling circuit including first and second correlated double samplers and configured to convert a first sense voltage sensed from a selected pixel of the first pixel group and a second sense voltage sensed from a selected pixel of the second pixel group into a first correlated double sampling signal and a second correlated double sampling signal, respectively.
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