Image sensor having a multiplicity of pixel sensor regions
US6104844A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 12, 1999 |
| Grant date | Aug 15, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 12, 2019 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N25/78
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An image sensor has an optical configuration for imaging an image to be recorded onto sensor elements. The sensor elements have dimensions below a resolution of the optical configuration. Neighboring sensor elements are in each case combined into pixel sensor regions. During the recording of the image, the measured values X of the sensor elements of each sensor region are averaged. In this case, each average value corresponds to a pixel of the recorded image. In this manner, production-dictated tolerances of the sensor elements are compensated for by the averaging.
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