Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method of acquiring image by employing color separation lens array
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Application No.: US17518181Application Date: 2021-11-03
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Publication No.: US11902712B2Publication Date: 2024-02-13
- Inventor: Sangyun Lee , Moongi Kang , Seokho Yun , Jonghyun Kim , Kyeonghoon Jeong
- Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. , INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si; KR Seoul
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: KR 20200149592 2020.11.10
- Main IPC: G02B27/10
- IPC: G02B27/10 ; H04N23/88 ; H04N23/84 ; H04N25/13 ; H04N9/01 ; H04N9/64

Abstract:
An apparatus for acquiring images includes an image sensor and a signal processor. The image sensor may include a sensor substrate and a color separation lens array, wherein the sensor substrate includes a plurality of photo-sensing cells, and the color separation lens array may separate an incident light into a plurality of lights having different wavelengths and forms a phase distribution for condensing the plurality of lights having the different wavelengths on adjacent photo-sensing cells of the plurality of photo-sensing cells. The signal processor may perform deconvolution on sensing signals of the plurality of photo-sensing cells to obtain a sub-sampled image, perform demosaicing to restore a full resolution image having a full resolution from the sub-sampled image, and correct a color of the full resolution image using a point spread function (PSF) of the color separation lens array.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220150453A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ACQUIRING IMAGE BY EMPLOYING COLOR SEPARATION LENS ARRAY Public/Granted day:2022-05-12
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