Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor having pixels with different integration periods
- Patent Title (中): 具有不同积分周期的像素的图像传感器
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Application No.: US14098504Application Date: 2013-12-05
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Publication No.: US09596420B2Publication Date: 2017-03-14
- Inventor: Xiaofeng Fan , Chiajen Lee , Michael R. Malone , Anup K. Sharma
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04N5/353 ; H04N5/355

Abstract:
An image sensor includes pixels that accumulate charge during a first integration period and pixels that accumulate charge during shorter second integration periods when an image is captured. The pixels having the shorter second integration period accumulate charge at two or more different times during the first integration period. Charge is read out of the pixels associated with the first integration period at the end of the first integration period, while charge is read out of the pixels having the second integration period at the end of each second integration period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150163422A1 Image Sensor Having Pixels with Different Integration Periods Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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