CMOS image sensor for suppressing degradation of spatial resolution and generating compressed image signals
US7593047B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 26, 2001 |
| Grant date | Sep 22, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 17, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N25/78
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention is an image sensor having a pixel array, which arranges pixels having photoelectric conversion circuits in rows and columns; and a pixel selecting circuit for selecting each pixel, wherein the pixel selecting circuit selects pixels of all rows and/or pixels of all columns, and selects a pixel signal at every plural pixels among the selected pixel signals, and pixels selected from a pixel block of a plurality of rows and columns within the pixel array are dispersed within this pixel block.
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